The first lifer for me wasn't until May when we went to Chincoteague and Shari took me to the spot where she'd seen BROWN-HEADED NUTHATCHES previously with Pete and Scott and sure enough, there they were. Our last life bird was just a couple of weeks ago, SHINY COWBIRD, in the side yard of a the Puerto Vieja Cafe, along with Yellow-shouldered Blackbirds.
Superstorm Sandy did so much damage to so much habitat all along the east coast that it seems almost impossible that places like Brigantine or Jamaica Bay will ever be restored to how they were. How this affects the bird populations on their migrations is yet to be known. It does make finding birds more of a challenge, a small problem compared to what the birds are facing. (And no, my sympathies don't extend to people who wanted to live on the edge of the ocean and inevitably lost their homes.)
On a boastful note, unless Scott Barnes sneaks into Ocean County today and finds a couple of more birds, it looks like I'll finish #1 in the county for the year with 182 species. It is a testament to my obsessiveness, not my birding skills.
And so the final list for 2012: (UPPERCASE BOLD is a life bird).
Species
Location
|
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Brigantine
|
West Indian Whistling-Duck
Laguna Cartegena
|
Snow Goose Brigantine
|
Brant Nummy Island
|
Barnacle Goose Mercer
Corporate Park
|
Canada Goose Cape May
Point SP
|
Mute Swan Cape May
Point SP
|
Tundra Swan Brigantine
|
Wood Duck Whiting WMA
|
Gadwall Cape May Point
SP
|
American Wigeon Cape
May Point SP
|
American Black Duck
Sandy Hook
|
Mallard Cape May Point
SP
|
Blue-winged Teal Brigantine
|
Northern Shoveler Cape
May Point SP
|
White-cheeked Pintail
Pond Near Copamarina
|
Northern Pintail Cape
May Point SP
|
Green-winged Teal Cape
May Point SP
|
Canvasback Riverfront
Landing
|
Ring-necked Duck Cape
May Point SP
|
TUFTED DUCK Laguna Cartegena
|
Greater Scaup Sandy
Hook
|
Lesser Scaup Cape May
Point SP
|
Common Eider
Avalon--8th St. Jetty
|
Harlequin Duck
Barnegat Lighthouse SP
|
Surf Scoter
Avalon--8th St. Jetty
|
White-winged Scoter
Sandy Hook
|
Black Scoter Cape May
Point SP
|
Long-tailed Duck
Avalon--8th St. Jetty
|
Bufflehead Nummy
Island
|
Common Goldeneye Sandy
Hook
|
Hooded Merganser Cape
May Point SP
|
Common Merganser Lilly
Lake
|
Red-breasted Merganser
Nummy Island
|
Masked Duck Laguna
Cartegena
|
Ruddy Duck Prospect
Park
|
HELMETED GUINEAFOWL Laguna Cartegena
|
Northern Bobwhite 35
Sunset Rd
|
Ring-necked Pheasant
Lacey Road
|
Ruffed Grouse Coles
Brook Farm
|
Wild Turkey GSP MM 95
|
Red-throated Loon Cape
May Point SP
|
Pacific Loon Glacier
Bay
|
Common Loon
Avalon--8th St. Jetty
|
Pied-billed Grebe Cape
May Point SP
|
Horned Grebe
Avalon--8th St. Jetty
|
BLACK-FOOTED ALBATROSS Aboard MS Westerdam
|
NORTHERN FULMAR Aboard MS Westerdam
|
LEACH'S STORM-PETREL Aboard MS Westerdam
|
Magnificent Frigatebird
Outside Ponce
|
Brown Booby Cabo Rojo
NWR
|
Northern Gannet Cape
May Point SP
|
Double-crested Cormorant
Lilly Lake
|
Great Cormorant Nummy
Island
|
Pelagic Cormorant
Glacier Bay
|
American White Pelican
Brigantine
|
Brown Pelican Great
Bay Blvd WMA
|
American Bittern Brigantine
|
Least Bittern Bombay
Hook NWR
|
Great Blue Heron Cape
May Point SP
|
Great Egret Cape May
Point SP
|
Snowy Egret Brigantine
|
Little Blue Heron
Cattus Island County Park
|
Tricolored Heron
Cattus Island County Park
|
Reddish Egret Brigantine
|
Cattle Egret Brigantine
|
Green Heron
Chincoteague NWR--Wildlife Loop
|
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Brigantine
|
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Great Bay Blvd WMA
|
White Ibis Chincoteague
NWR
|
Glossy Ibis Brigantine
|
White-faced Ibis Brigantine
|
Black Vulture Cape May
Point SP
|
Turkey Vulture Cape
May Point SP
|
Osprey Mt. Loretto
Unique Area
|
Northern Harrier Brigantine
|
Sharp-shinned Hawk Cape
May Point SP
|
Cooper's Hawk Whiting
WMA
|
Bald Eagle Bombay Hook
NWR
|
Red-shouldered Hawk Cape
May Point SP
|
Red-tailed Hawk
Central Park
|
Clapper Rail Little
Toms Cove
|
Virginia Rail Brigantine
|
Sora Horicon Lake
|
Purple Gallinule Laguna
Cartegena
|
Common Gallinule Brigantine
|
American Coot Cape May
Point SP
|
Caribbean Coot Laguna
Cartegena
|
Black-bellied Plover Stone
Harbor Point
|
American Golden-Plover
Bombay Hook NWR
|
Wilson's Plover Cabo
Rojo NWR
|
Semipalmated Plover
Chincoteague NWR--Wildlife Loop
|
Piping Plover
Assateague Island
|
Killdeer Shelter Cove
Park
|
American Oystercatcher
Nummy Island
|
Black-necked Stilt
Bombay Hook NWR
|
American Avocet Ted
Harvey WMA
|
Spotted Sandpiper
Prospect Park
|
Solitary Sandpiper
Whiting WMA
|
Greater Yellowlegs
Bombay Hook NWR
|
Willet Brigantine
|
Lesser Yellowlegs
Bombay Hook NWR
|
UPLAND SANDPIPER Lakehurst NAES
|
Whimbrel Brigantine
|
Hudsonian Godwit
Bombay Hook NWR
|
Marbled Godwit Nummy
Island
|
Ruddy Turnstone
Avalon--8th St. Jetty
|
Red Knot Stone Harbor
Point
|
Sanderling Avalon--8th
St. Jetty
|
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Brigantine
|
Western Sandpiper Brigantine
|
Least Sandpiper
Chincoteague NWR--Marsh Trail
|
White-rumped Sandpiper
Brigantine
|
Pectoral Sandpiper
Bombay Hook NWR
|
Purple Sandpiper
Avalon--8th St. Jetty
|
Dunlin Avalon--8th St.
Jetty
|
Stilt Sandpiper Brigantine
|
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Sandy Hook
|
RUFF Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge--East Pond
|
Short-billed Dowitcher
Brigantine
|
Long-billed Dowitcher Brigantine
|
Wilson's Phalarope Brigantine
|
Red-necked Phalarope Cabo
Rojo NWR
|
Black-legged Kittiwake
Glacier Bay
|
Bonaparte's Gull Cape
May Point SP
|
Laughing Gull Cape May
Meadows
|
Mew Gull Juneau Harbor
|
Ring-billed Gull Cape
May Point SP
|
Herring Gull Cape May
Point SP
|
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Brigantine
|
GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL North Seattle
|
Great Black-backed Gull
Cape May Point SP
|
Least Tern Horicon
Lake
|
Gull-billed Tern Brigantine
|
Caspian Tern Brigantine
|
Black Tern Sandy Hook
|
Common Tern Assateague
Island
|
Arctic Tern Glacier
Bay
|
Forster's Tern Cape
May Point SP
|
Royal Tern Brigantine
|
Sandwich Tern Boqueron
|
Black Skimmer
Assateague Island
|
Common Murre Glacier
Bay
|
Razorbill Manasquan
Inlet
|
Pigeon Guillemot Pier
91
|
MARBLED MURRELET Glacier Bay
|
CASSIN'S AUKLET Juan de Fuca Strait
|
RHINOCEROS AUKLET Juan de Fuca Strait
|
TUFTED PUFFIN Glacier Bay
|
Rock Pigeon Cape May
Point SP
|
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Lincoln Ave, Cape May Pt
|
White-winged Dove
Lincoln Ave, Cape May Pt
|
Zenaida Dove Guanica
|
Mourning Dove
Avalon--8th St. Jetty
|
Common Ground-Dove
Ponce--general area
|
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Wells Mills Park
|
Mangrove Cuckoo Bosque
Estatal de Guánica
|
Black-billed Cuckoo
Island Beach SP
|
Smooth-billed Ani Laguna
Cartegena
|
Eastern Screech-Owl 35
Sunset Rd
|
Great Horned Owl
Prospect Park
|
Barred Owl Bombay Hook
NWR
|
Common Nighthawk
Lakehurst NAES
|
CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW Brigantine
|
Eastern Whip-poor-will
35 Sunset Rd
|
Chimney Swift Brigantine
|
Antillean Mango
Copamarina
|
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
35 Sunset Rd
|
Puerto Rican Tody
Bosque Estatal de Guánica
|
Belted Kingfisher
Cattus Island County Park
|
Puerto Rican Woodpecker
Laguna Cartegena
|
Red-bellied Woodpecker
35 Sunset Rd
|
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Crestwood Village
|
RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER Starrigavan Estuary (Sitka)
|
Downy Woodpecker 35
Sunset Rd
|
Hairy Woodpecker 35
Sunset Rd
|
Northern Flicker Cape
May Point SP
|
Pileated Woodpecker
Walkway over the Hudson
|
Crested Caracara
Princeton Junction--Grover Farm
|
American Kestrel
Whiting WMA
|
Merlin 18 Aberdeen
Avenue
|
Peregrine Falcon Brigantine
|
Caribbean Elaenia Cabo
Rojo
|
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Winding Hills County Park
|
Lesser Antillean Pewee
Bosque Estatal de Guánica
|
Acadian Flycatcher Chincoteague
NWR
|
Willow Flycatcher
Bombay Hook NWR
|
Eastern Phoebe White's
Bogs
|
Great Crested Flycatcher
Double Trouble State Park
|
Puerto Rican Flycatcher
Laguna Cartegena
|
Eastern Kingbird
Whiting WMA
|
Gray Kingbird Bosque
Estatal de Guánica
|
LOGGERHEAD KINGBIRD Bosque Estatal de Guánica
|
White-eyed Vireo Brigantine
|
Bell's Vireo Cape
Island--The Beanery (Rea Farm)
|
Blue-headed Vireo
Island Beach SP
|
Warbling Vireo Whiting
WMA
|
Philadelphia Vireo
Central Park
|
Red-eyed Vireo Bombay
Hook NWR
|
Blue Jay Lilly Lake
|
American Crow Cape May
Point SP
|
NORTHWESTERN CROW Juneau Harbor
|
Fish Crow Whiting WMA
|
Common Raven
Juneau--downtown
|
Horned Lark Fast
Landing Rd
|
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Lighthouse Pond
|
Purple Martin Brigantine
|
Tree Swallow Whiting
WMA
|
Bank Swallow Bombay
Hook NWR
|
Barn Swallow Cape May
Meadows
|
Cliff Swallow Great
Bay Blvd WMA
|
Cave Swallow Cemetery
of the Resurrection
|
Carolina Chickadee 35
Sunset Rd
|
Black-capped Chickadee
Allaire State Park
|
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Sitka Nat. Historical Park
|
Tufted Titmouse
Whiting WMA
|
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Crestwood Village
|
White-breasted Nuthatch
Whiting WMA
|
BROWN-HEADED NUTHATCH Chincoteague NWR
|
Brown Creeper Whiting
WMA
|
House Wren Whiting WMA
|
Winter Wren Prime Hook
NWR--Headquarters area
|
Marsh Wren Bombay Hook
NWR
|
Bewick's Wren North
Seattle
|
Carolina Wren Cape May
Point SP
|
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Estell Manor Park(move)
|
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Whiting WMA
|
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Whiting WMA
|
Eastern Bluebird Cape
Island--The Beanery (Rea Farm)
|
Veery Double Trouble
State Park
|
Swainson's Thrush
Starrigavan Estuary (Sitka)
|
Hermit Thrush Cattus
Island County Park
|
Wood Thrush Whiting
WMA
|
American Robin Cape
May Point SP
|
Varied Thrush Mt.
Roberts Tramway
|
Gray Catbird Brigantine
|
Northern Mockingbird Cape
May Point SP
|
Brown Thrasher Double
Trouble State Park
|
Pearly-eyed Thrasher
Copamarina
|
European Starling Cape
May Point SP
|
Cedar Waxwing Cape May
Point SP
|
Snow Bunting Sandy
Hook
|
Ovenbird Whiting WMA
|
Northern Waterthrush
Prospect Park
|
Blue-winged Warbler
Double Trouble State Park
|
Black-and-white Warbler
Whiting WMA
|
Nashville Warbler Cape May Point SP
|
Common Yellowthroat
Whiting WMA
|
Hooded Warbler Double
Trouble State Park
|
American Redstart
Central Park
|
Northern Parula
Crestwood Village
|
Magnolia Warbler Chincoteague
NWR
|
Blackburnian Warbler Cape
May Point SP
|
Yellow Warbler
Crossley Preserve
|
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Cape May Point SP
|
Blackpoll Warbler
Island Beach SP
|
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Cape May Point SP
|
Palm Warbler Horicon
Lake
|
Pine Warbler Whiting
WMA
|
Yellow-rumped Warbler Cape
May Point SP
|
Prairie Warbler
Whiting WMA
|
Adelaide's Warbler
Bosque Estatal de Guánica
|
Townsend's Warbler
Sitka Nat. Historical Park
|
Canada Warbler Central
Park
|
Yellow-breasted Chat
Bryant Park
|
Bananaquit Bosque
Estatal de Guánica
|
Yellow-faced Grassquit
Laguna Cartegena
|
Black-faced Grassquit Laguna
Cartegena
|
Puerto Rican Bullfinch
Bosque Estatal de Guánica
|
Spotted Towhee North
Seattle
|
Eastern Towhee Whiting
WMA
|
American Tree Sparrow White's Bogs
|
Chipping Sparrow 35
Sunset Rd
|
Field Sparrow Sandy
Hook
|
Savannah Sparrow Great
Bay Blvd WMA
|
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW Lakehurst NAES
|
Saltmarsh Sparrow Great
Bay Blvd WMA
|
Seaside Sparrow Brigantine
|
Fox Sparrow 35 Sunset
Rd
|
Song Sparrow Crestwood
Village
|
Lincoln's Sparrow
Starrigavan Estuary (Sitka)
|
Swamp Sparrow Little
Creek Wildlife Area
|
White-throated Sparrow
Empty lot at Whildin and Harvard
|
White-crowned Sparrow
Island Beach SP
|
Dark-eyed Junco
Whiting WMA
|
Northern Cardinal Cape
May Point SP
|
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
35 Sunset Rd
|
Blue Grosbeak Chincoteague
NWR
|
Indigo Bunting
Chincoteague NWR
|
Dickcissel Empty lot
at Whildin and Harvard
|
Red-winged Blackbird Brigantine
|
Yellow-shouldered Blackbird
Puerto Viejo Cafe
|
Eastern Meadowlark
Lakehurst NAES
|
Common Grackle Clara
Barton rest stop
|
Boat-tailed Grackle
Bridge to Nowhere
|
Greater Antillean Grackle
Copamarina
|
SHINY COWBIRD Puerto Viejo Cafe
|
Brown-headed Cowbird
Sandy Hook
|
Orchard Oriole Chincoteague
NWR
|
Venezuelan Troupial
Pond Near Copamarina
|
Baltimore Oriole Cape
May Point SP
|
Antillean Euphonia
Bosque Estatal de Guánica
|
Purple Finch 35 Sunset
Rd
|
House Finch Cape
Island--The Beanery (Rea Farm)
|
Red Crossbill
Deal--Clem Conover Rd.
|
Pine Siskin 35 Sunset
Rd
|
American Goldfinch 35
Sunset Rd
|
House Sparrow Empty
lot at Whildin and Harvard
|
ORANGE BISHOP Laguna Cartegena
|
Orange-cheeked Waxbill
Laguna Cartegena
|
Bronze Mannikin Cabo
Rojo
|
Hey Larry,
ReplyDeleteThat's an amazing lit! Don't minimize those birding skills!!