Friday AM - Meadows Notes

The 32nd Annual Spring Weekend starts today, and I had the opportunity to spend the morning at the South Cape May Meadows. Highlights included a Least Bittern that flew across the beach-end of the east path around 11:30am, two Royal Terns on the "gull island" on the east path, at least two Lesser Black-backed Gulls, a brief fly-by White-winged Scoter, and a pair of Horned Larks hanging around (and singing) from the dunes.

The walks at Cape May Point State Park produced a Blackburnian Warbler toward the back end of the park, as well as a Black-throated Blue Warbler.

Cumulative list from the Meadows included below-

Location: South Cape May Meadows
Observation date: 5/15/09
Number of species: 77

Canada Goose 15
Mute Swan 9
Gadwall 4
Mallard 6
Surf Scoter 6
White-winged Scoter 1
Common Loon 1
Northern Gannet 10
Double-crested Cormorant 50
Least Bittern 1
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 5
Tricolored Heron 1
Green Heron 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 20
Black Vulture 1
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey 4
American Coot 1
Black-bellied Plover 20
Semipalmated Plover 2
Piping Plover 6
Killdeer 2
American Oystercatcher 2
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Willet (Eastern) 5
Red Knot 7
Sanderling 6
Semipalmated Sandpiper 4
Least Sandpiper 5
Dunlin 15
Short-billed Dowitcher 35
Laughing Gull 90
Ring-billed Gull 2
Herring Gull 30
Lesser Black-backed Gull 2
Great Black-backed Gull 15
Least Tern 30
Common Tern 8
Forster's Tern 30
Royal Tern 2
Black Skimmer 3
Rock Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 6
Chimney Swift 6
Belted Kingfisher 1
Eastern Kingbird 2
Blue Jay 1
Fish Crow 2
Horned Lark 2
Purple Martin 6
Tree Swallow 12
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Bank Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 15
Carolina Chickadee 1
Carolina Wren 2
Marsh Wren 2
American Robin 6
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 10
Cedar Waxwing 3
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 4
Indigo Bunting 1
Bobolink 1
Red-winged Blackbird 12
Common Grackle 6
Brown-headed Cowbird 6
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 12

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)