We found out that post-Sandy we're living in a bubble--outside of the environs of Crestwood Village it is a mess out there--traffic lights not working, gas lines like the oil embargoes of the 70's, supermarkets out of food and running on generators, and fifteen miles due east of here, utter devastation, symbolized by the image of a roller coaster dumped in the ocean.
A lot of places we bird, like Brig, Island Beach, Long Beach Island, Great Bay Blvd, & Jamaica Bay, have sustained heavy storm damage. It could be weeks or months until we know how much damage has been done to the habitats of these spots. Many people have been sending in reports of "storm birds" from the Delaware River, but somehow it is hard to get interested in an storm displaced Leach's Storm-Petrel when Sandy has carved a new inlet from the ocean to the bay a little north of here. Plus, I'd like to know where these guys are getting gas!
124 species for the month; 9 FOY.
Counties birded:
Delaware: Kent, Sussex
New Jersey: Atlantic, Morris, Ocean, Somerset
Species Location
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Snow Goose Bombay Hook
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Brant Brigantine
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Canada Goose Bombay Hook
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Mute Swan Brigantine
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Tundra Swan Bombay Hook
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Wood Duck Island Beach SP
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Gadwall Bombay Hook
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American Black
Duck Bombay Hook
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Mallard Cattus Island
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Blue-winged Teal Brigantine
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Northern Shoveler Bombay Hook
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Northern Pintail Bombay Hook
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Green-winged Teal Bombay Hook
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Lesser Scaup Double Trouble State Park
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Hooded Merganser Double Trouble State Park
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Red-breasted
Merganser Great Bay Blvd
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Ruddy Duck Bombay Hook
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Wild Turkey 35 Sunset Rd
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Pied-billed Grebe Bombay Hook
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Northern Gannet Island Beach SP
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Double-crested
Cormorant Cattus Island
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Brown Pelican Island Beach SP
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American
Bittern Brigantine
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Great Blue Heron Cattus Island
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Great Egret Cattus Island
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Snowy Egret Bombay Hook
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Little Blue Heron Cattus Island
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Green Heron Crestwood Village
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Black-crowned
Night-Heron Brigantine
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Glossy Ibis Prime Hook
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Turkey Vulture Whiting WMA
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Osprey Bombay Hook
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Northern Harrier Cattus Island
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Sharp-shinned
Hawk Island Beach SP
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Cooper's Hawk Cattus Island
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Bald Eagle Brigantine
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Red-tailed Hawk Whiting WMA
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American Coot Bombay Hook
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Black-bellied
Plover Bombay Hook
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Semipalmated
Plover Brigantine
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Killdeer Eno's Pond
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American
Oystercatcher Great Bay Blvd
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Black-necked
Stilt Bombay Hook
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American Avocet Bombay Hook
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Greater
Yellowlegs Bombay Hook
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Lesser Yellowlegs Bombay Hook
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Marbled Godwit Brigantine
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Sanderling Island Beach SP
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Semipalmated
Sandpiper Bombay Hook
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Western Sandpiper Bombay Hook
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Dunlin Bombay Hook
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Stilt Sandpiper Bombay Hook
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Long-billed
Dowitcher Brigantine
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Laughing Gull Bombay Hook
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Ring-billed Gull Horicon Lake
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Herring Gull Cattus Island
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Great Black-backed
Gull Island Beach SP
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Caspian Tern Bombay Hook
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Forster's Tern Bombay Hook
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Rock Pigeon Island Beach SP
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Mourning Dove Whiting WMA
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Black-billed
Cuckoo Island Beach SP
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Belted Kingfisher Cattus Island
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Red-bellied
Woodpecker Whiting WMA
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Yellow-bellied
Sapsucker 35 Sunset Rd
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Downy Woodpecker 35 Sunset Rd
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Hairy Woodpecker Scherman-Hoffman
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Northern Flicker Whiting WMA
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Merlin Bombay Hook
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Peregrine Falcon Bombay Hook
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Eastern Phoebe Whiting WMA
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Blue-headed
Vireo Island Beach SP
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Red-eyed Vireo 35 Sunset Rd
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Blue Jay Whiting WMA
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American Crow Whiting WMA
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Fish Crow Dover
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Tree Swallow Island Beach SP
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Carolina
Chickadee Whiting WMA
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Black-capped
Chickadee Scherman-Hoffman
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Tufted Titmouse Whiting WMA
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Red-breasted
Nuthatch Whiting WMA
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White-breasted
Nuthatch Whiting WMA
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Brown Creeper Island Beach SP
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House Wren Island Beach SP
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Winter
Wren Prime Hook
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Carolina Wren 35 Sunset Rd
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Golden-crowned
Kinglet Prime Hook
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Ruby-crowned
Kinglet Crestwood Village
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Eastern Bluebird Whiting WMA
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Swainson's Thrush 35 Sunset Rd
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Hermit Thrush Island Beach SP
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American Robin 35 Sunset Rd
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Gray Catbird Double Trouble State Park
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Northern
Mockingbird Bombay Hook
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Brown Thrasher Prime Hook
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European Starling Bombay Hook
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Cedar Waxwing Island Beach SP
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Black-and-white
Warbler Island Beach SP
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Common
Yellowthroat Double Trouble
State Park
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Northern
Parula Crestwood Village
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Magnolia Warbler Horicon Lake
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Blackpoll
Warbler Island Beach SP
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Palm Warbler Whiting WMA
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Pine Warbler Whiting WMA
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Yellow-rumped
Warbler Cattus Island
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Eastern Towhee 35 Sunset Rd
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Chipping Sparrow Whiting WMA
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Savannah Sparrow Crestwood Village
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Song Sparrow Double Trouble State Park
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Swamp Sparrow Crestwood Village
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White-throated
Sparrow Cattus Island
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White-crowned
Sparrow Island Beach SP
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Dark-eyed Junco Whiting WMA
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Northern Cardinal Crestwood Village
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Rose-breasted
Grosbeak Island Beach SP
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Red-winged
Blackbird Cattus Island
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Common Grackle Cattus Island
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Boat-tailed
Grackle Brigantine
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Brown-headed
Cowbird Whiting WMA
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Purple
Finch 35 Sunset Rd
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House Finch Crestwood Village
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Pine
Siskin 35 Sunset Rd
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American
Goldfinch Cattus Island
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House Sparrow 35 Sunset Rd
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| Hermit Thrush, Whiting WMA 10/31 Photo: Shari Zirlin |
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