Observation date: 4/25/11
Notes: CMBO Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne-PD,KL,C&MJS,SB,+12.Clr,60°,Var.4. Beautiful day and good birds. Still ducks remaining including both Blue-winged and Green-winged Teal. American ystercatchers and Piping Plover on the beach, Egrets in the air and in the ponds, a few shorebirds including eight Willets and Least Sandpipers. The Highlight of the walk had to be the stunning scope views of an adult male Scissor-tailed Flycatcher!!!!
Number of species: 55
Canada Goose 5
Mute Swan 8
Wood Duck 1
Gadwall 6
American Wigeon 1
Mallard 10
Blue-winged Teal 1
Green-winged Teal 10
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Common Loon 5
Northern Gannet 25
Double-crested Cormorant 300
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 4
Snowy Egret 6
Green Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 12
Osprey 8
American Kestrel 1
American Coot 2
Piping Plover 6
Killdeer 2
American Oystercatcher 2
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Willet 8
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Least Sandpiper 8
Short-billed Dowitcher 1
Wilson's Snipe 2
Laughing Gull 25
Ring-billed Gull 1
American Herring Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Forster's Tern 10
Mourning Dove 4
Eastern Kingbird 1
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 1
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 1
Tree Swallow 10
Barn Swallow 8
Carolina Wren 2
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat 6
Savannah Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 4
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Common Grackle 10
Boat-tailed Grackle 3
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 3
House Sparrow 3
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As soon as they return in the spring, Eastern Willets take up breeding territory [photo by Karl Lukens].
This stunning Scissor-tailed Flycatcher has been gracing South Cape May for several days now [photo by Karl Lukens].
Male Common Yellowthroat on today's walk[photo by Karl Lukens].
