State Park Shrike! Plus Sora, Other Meadows Birds

I just got word that Michael O'Brien and Louise Zemaitis are looking at a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE from the hawk watch right now!

Not much of a flight materialized last night, apparently, at least not in Cape May. The Higbee dike had a few morning flight migrants, and an adult Bald Eagle flew past.

CMBO's meadows walk found a cooperative juvenile Sora this morning, but my favorite was the Green Heron that flew in off the water and, apparently exhausted, landed on the first thing it got to - that being the Bunker. The full meadows list is below.

Location: South Cape May Meadows
Observation date: 8/31/09
Number of species: 65

Canada Goose 25
Mute Swan 30
Wood Duck 3
Gadwall 2
American Black Duck 2
American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid) 1
Mallard 25
Blue-winged Teal 10
Double-crested Cormorant 20
Great Egret 5
Snowy Egret 1
Green Heron 2
Osprey 5
Peregrine Falcon 1
Sora 1
Common Moorhen 1
Semipalmated Plover 5
Killdeer 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 10
Sanderling 100
Semipalmated Sandpiper 5
Least Sandpiper 20
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 1
Laughing Gull 50
Ring-billed Gull 30
Herring Gull 50
Great Black-backed Gull 50
Common Tern 75
Forster's Tern 20
Royal Tern 10
Black Skimmer 10
Rock Pigeon 10
Mourning Dove 10
Chimney Swift 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 6
Downy Woodpecker 2
White-eyed Vireo 2
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 5
American Crow 10
Fish Crow 15
Purple Martin 15
Tree Swallow 25
Barn Swallow 15
Carolina Chickadee 5
Carolina Wren 5
Marsh Wren 2
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling 40
Cedar Waxwing 25
Yellow Warbler 5
Prairie Warbler 1
American Redstart 3
Northern Waterthrush 1
Common Yellowthroat 3
Northern Cardinal 3
Blue Grosbeak 2
Indigo Bunting 1
Bobolink 100
Red-winged Blackbird 50
House Finch 5
American Goldfinch 5
House Sparrow 5