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Red-tailed Hawk, Brigantine
Photo: Shari Zirlin
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Thirty days hath November...I almost forgot, what with the holiday festivities and all, that today was the last day of the month. And it was a pretty good month of late autumn birding. We spent a lot of time looking at the ocean for ducks and such and a fair amount of time craning our necks to see raptors.
I had 2 lifers for the month: the NELSON'S SPARROWS that popped out, finally, at Brigantine early in the month after I had searched all season for them at their most "reliable" spot in Tuckerton and then in the middle of the month 3 PARASITIC JAEGERS I was able to see from shore at Island Beach State Park.
The big miss for the month, which perhaps we'll rectify tomorrow, was Snowy Owl. There seems to be a virtual invasion of this arctic owl into NJ this month--they've been seen at Sandy Hook, Barnegat Light, National Park, Island Beach, Cape May and Brigantine (where we had no luck on Saturday finding one). I feel like we're the only birders in NJ who haven't seen one.
Other interesting FOY for the year were the 2 Golden Eagles at Brig and the flock of Snow Buntings we saw at Island Beach. In the "about time" category we had Northern Gannet & White-winged Scoter. Rusty Blackbirds, a seasonal rarity, were pretty easy to find if you walked far enough back in Whitesbog, and the Eurasian Wigeon we saw twice at Brigantine rounded out the FOY list.
I started keeping data again for Project Feederwatch this month. This gives me something to do on days it is too stinking cold to go out. It also occupies the cat wonderfully.
For the month we had 121 species, all in NJ.
Counties Birded: Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean.
Species Location
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Snow Goose Brigantine
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Brant Brigantine
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Canada Goose Cape May
Point SP
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Mute Swan Cape May
Point SP
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Tundra Swan Brigantine
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Wood Duck Whitesbog
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Gadwall Cape May Point
SP
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Eurasian Wigeon Brigantine
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American Wigeon Cape
May Point SP
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American Black Duck
Cattus Island County Park
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Mallard Cape May Point
SP
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Northern Shoveler Cape
May Point SP
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Northern Pintail Cape
May Point SP
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Green-winged Teal Cape
May Point SP
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Ring-necked Duck Brigantine
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Greater Scaup Brigantine
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Lesser Scaup Cape May
Point SP
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Surf Scoter Island
Beach SP
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White-winged Scoter Avalon--8th St. Jetty
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Black Scoter
Avalon--8th St. Jetty
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Long-tailed Duck
Island Beach SP
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Bufflehead Cattus
Island County Park
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Hooded Merganser
Crestwood Village
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Red-breasted Merganser
Island Beach SP
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Ruddy Duck Cape May
Point SP
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Wild Turkey 35 Sunset
Rd
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Red-throated Loon
Island Beach SP
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Common Loon
IBSP--Beach
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Pied-billed Grebe Cape
May Point SP
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Horned Grebe Brigantine
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Northern Gannet Avalon Seawatch
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Double-crested Cormorant
35 Sunset Rd
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Brown Pelican Island
Beach SP
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Great Blue Heron Whitesbog
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Great Egret Wetlands
Institute
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Snowy Egret Wetlands
Institute
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Little Blue Heron Wetlands
Institute
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Black-crowned Night-Heron
Brigantine
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Black Vulture
Crestwood Village
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Turkey Vulture 35
Sunset Rd
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Golden Eagle Brigantine
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Northern Harrier Whitesbog
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Sharp-shinned Hawk Cape
May Point SP
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Cooper's Hawk 35
Sunset Rd
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Bald Eagle Brigantine
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Red-shouldered Hawk Brigantine
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Red-tailed Hawk Brigantine
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American Coot Cape May
Point SP
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Black-bellied Plover Island
Beach SP
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Killdeer Whitesbog
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Greater Yellowlegs Whitesbog
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Ruddy Turnstone Avalon
Seawatch
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Red Knot Island Beach
SP
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Sanderling Avalon
Seawatch
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Dunlin Island Beach SP
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Purple Sandpiper
Avalon Seawatch
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Pectoral Sandpiper Whitesbog
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Western Sandpiper Brigantine
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Wilson's Snipe Whitesbog
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PARASITIC
JAEGER Island Beach SP
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Bonaparte's Gull
Island Beach SP
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Laughing Gull Island
Beach SP
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Ring-billed Gull
Atlantic City Service Area
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Herring Gull Atlantic
City Service Area
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Great Black-backed Gull
Cape May Point SP
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Forster's Tern Island
Beach SP
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Rock Pigeon Atlantic
City Service Area
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Mourning Dove
Crestwood Village
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Belted Kingfisher
Cattus Island County Park
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Red-headed Woodpecker
Oros Preserve
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Red-bellied Woodpecker
Cattus Island County Park
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Crestwood Village
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Downy Woodpecker
Crestwood Village
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Hairy Woodpecker
Double Trouble State Park
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Northern Flicker Island
Beach SP
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Peregrine Falcon Brigantine
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Blue Jay Crestwood
Village
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American Crow
Crestwood Village
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Tree Swallow Cape May
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Carolina Chickadee
Crestwood Village
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Tufted Titmouse 35
Sunset Rd
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White-breasted Nuthatch
35 Sunset Rd
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Brown Creeper
Crestwood Village
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Winter Wren Cattus
Island County Park
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Marsh Wren Cattus
Island County Park
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Carolina Wren
Crestwood Village
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Golden-crowned Kinglet
Cattus Island County Park
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet Whitesbog
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Eastern Bluebird
Crestwood Village
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Hermit Thrush Cattus
Island County Park
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American Robin
Crestwood Village
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Gray Catbird Cape May
Point SP
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Northern Mockingbird Wetlands
Institute
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European Starling
Atlantic City Service Area
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American Pipit Reed's
Sod Farm
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Snow Bunting Island Beach SP
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Palm Warbler Wetlands
Institute
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Pine Warbler Whiting
WMA
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Yellow-rumped Warbler Wetlands
Institute
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Eastern Towhee Whitesbog
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American Tree Sparrow Double
Trouble State Park
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Chipping Sparrow 35
Sunset Rd
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Field Sparrow Cattus
Island County Park
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Savannah Sparrow Brigantine
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NELSON'S
SPARROW Brigantine
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Saltmarsh Sparrow Brigantine
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Seaside Sparrow Brigantine
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Fox Sparrow Whitesbog
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Song Sparrow Wetlands
Institute
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Swamp Sparrow Whitesbog
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White-throated Sparrow
Crestwood Village
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White-crowned Sparrow Wetlands
Institute
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Dark-eyed Junco 35
Sunset Rd
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Northern Cardinal 35
Sunset Rd
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Red-winged Blackbird
Cattus Island County Park
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Rusty Blackbird Oros Preserve
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Common Grackle Cattus
Island County Park
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Boat-tailed Grackle Brigantine
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House Finch Crestwood
Village
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American Goldfinch
Crestwood Village
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House Sparrow Atlantic
City Service Area
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