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| Green Heron, Eno's Pond |
Summer is the time to concentrate on shorebirds, so I headed toward salt and brackish water as much as I could this month, with multiple trips to Brig, Great Bay Blvd, and Cattus Island. The biggest surprise of the month was the out-of-season ducks I kept stumbling across--a Common Eider at Sandy Hook, a Hooded Merganser at Eno's Pond, and a Red-breasted Merganser while canoeing with Greg out to Great Sedge Island.
Great Sedge Island also provided the highlights of the month: Within a few minutes of each other, I had my FOY Brown Pelican and my FOY (and quite possibly Year Only) American Bittern.
We made a brief weekend trip up the Berkshires to visit our friends and while there came up with a few birds that we don't normally see down here in the summer, like Broad-winged Hawk, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and Rose-breasted Grosbeak.
I'm looking forward to August. We have a trip to Bombay Hook planned and the bogs at Whitesbog are draining--more on that tomorrow, weather permitting.
For the month I had 135 species, just about what I did in June, under more propitious circumstances.
Species Location
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Brant Sandy Hook
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Canada Goose Whitesbog
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Mute Swan Cattus
Island County Park
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Wood Duck Whitesbog
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American Black Duck Brigantine
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Mallard Cattus Island
County Park
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Common Eider
Sandy Hook
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Hooded Merganser Eno’s Pond
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Red-breasted Merganser Great Sedge Island
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Wild Turkey Whitesbog
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Double-crested Cormorant
Brigantine
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Brown Pelican Great Sedge Island
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American Bittern Great Sedge Island
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Great Blue Heron Whitesbog
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Great Egret Cattus
Island County Park
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Snowy Egret Cattus Island County Park
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Little Blue Heron
Cattus Island County Park
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Tricolored Heron
Cattus Island County Park
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Green Heron Whitesbog
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Black-crowned Night-Heron
Brigantine
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Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Brigantine
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Glossy Ibis Cattus
Island County Park
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Turkey Vulture Whitesbog
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Osprey Cattus Island
County Park
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Broad-winged Hawk Bog
Pond
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Red-tailed Hawk Cattus
Island County Park
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Clapper Rail Cattus
Island County Park
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American Oystercatcher
Brigantine
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Black-bellied Plover Brigantine
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Semipalmated Plover Forsythe--Barnegat
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Piping Plover Barnegat
Lighthouse SP
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Killdeer Sandy Hook
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Spotted Sandpiper
Whitesbog Ocean County portion
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Solitary Sandpiper Whitesbog
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Greater Yellowlegs Brigantine
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Willet Cattus Island
County Park
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Lesser Yellowlegs Brigantine
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Whimbrel Sandy Hook
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Ruddy Turnstone Great
Bay Bvld. WMA
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Stilt Sandpiper Brigantine
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Sanderling Great Sedge
Island
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Dunlin Sandy Hook
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Least Sandpiper
Barnegat Lighthouse SP
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Semipalmated Sandpiper
Sandy Hook
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Western Sandpiper Brigantine
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Short-billed Dowitcher
Brigantine
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Long-billed Dowitcher Brigantine
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Laughing Gull Cattus
Island County Park
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Ring-billed Gull Brigantine
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Herring Gull Cattus
Island County Park
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Great Black-backed Gull
Cattus Island County Park
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Least Tern Sandy Hook
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Gull-billed Tern Brigantine
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Caspian Tern Brigantine
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Black Tern Brigantine
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Common Tern Barnegat
Lighthouse SP
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Forster's Tern Cattus
Island County Park
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Royal Tern Barnegat Lighthouse SP
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Black Skimmer Brigantine
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Mourning Dove Cattus
Island County Park
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Cattus Island County Park
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Black-billed Cuckoo
Union Transportation Trail
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Great Horned Owl Brigantine
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Common Nighthawk 35
Sunset Rd
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Eastern Whip-poor-will
35 Sunset Rd
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Chimney Swift Sandy
Hook
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird
35 Sunset Rd
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Belted Kingfisher
Cross Place Road
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Red-bellied Woodpecker
Brigantine
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Cross Place Road
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Downy Woodpecker Brigantine
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Hairy Woodpecker
Cattus Island County Park
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Northern Flicker Ernest
L. Oros Wildlife Preserve
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American Kestrel Savoy
Rd--Windsor
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Peregrine Falcon Brigantine
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Eastern Wood-Pewee
Cattus Island County Park
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Willow Flycatcher Brigantine
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Eastern Phoebe Whitesbog
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Great Crested Flycatcher
Whitesbog
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Eastern Kingbird
Cattus Island County Park
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White-eyed Vireo Whitesbog
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Red-eyed Vireo Eno’s
Pond
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Blue Jay Cattus Island
County Park
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American Crow Brigantine
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Fish Crow Whitesbog
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Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Brigantine
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Purple Martin Brigantine
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Tree Swallow Whitesbog
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Bank Swallow Sandy Hook
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Barn Swallow Cattus
Island County Park
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Carolina Chickadee
Cattus Island County Park
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Black-capped Chickadee
Cross Place Road
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Tufted Titmouse 35
Sunset Rd
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White-breasted Nuthatch
35 Sunset Rd
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House Wren Cattus
Island County Park
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Marsh Wren Cattus
Island County Park
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Carolina Wren Brigantine
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Whitesbog
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Eastern Bluebird Whitesbog
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Wood Thrush Union
Transportation Trail
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American Robin Cattus
Island County Park
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Gray Catbird Whitesbog
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Brown Thrasher
Whitesbog Ocean County portion
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Northern Mockingbird
Barnegat Lighthouse SP
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European Starling
Ernest L. Oros Wildlife Preserve
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Cedar Waxwing Sandy
Hook
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Ovenbird Whitesbog
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Black-and-white Warbler
Whitesbog
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Common Yellowthroat Whitesbog
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American Redstart
Sandy Hook
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Yellow Warbler Brigantine
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Pine Warbler Whitesbog
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Prairie Warbler Whitesbog
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Eastern Towhee Whitesbog
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Chipping Sparrow Whitesbog
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Field Sparrow Sandy
Hook
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Grasshopper Sparrow Negri-Nepote
Grasslands
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Saltmarsh Sparrow
Cattus Island County Park
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Seaside Sparrow Cattus
Island County Park
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Song Sparrow Whitesbog
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Scarlet Tanager
Colliers Mills WMA
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Northern Cardinal Whitesbog
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Ashuwillticook Rail Trail
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Blue Grosbeak Whitesbog
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Indigo Bunting Brigantine
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Dickcissel
Negri-Nepote Grasslands
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Red-winged Blackbird Whitesbog
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Common Grackle Whitesbog
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Boat-tailed Grackle Great
Bay Bvld. WMA
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Brown-headed Cowbird
Whitesbog Ocean County portion
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Orchard Oriole Whitesbog
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Baltimore Oriole
Ashuwillticook Rail Trail
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House Finch 35 Sunset
Rd
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American Goldfinch Whitesbog
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House Sparrow Barnegat
Lighthouse SP
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