Last Walk of the Year--Snow Goose

I went out this afternoon when it finally warmed up a bit, walking around the neighborhood, mostly for the exercise, but I always bring my binoculars along. There were the expected birds along the way, nothing I hadn't already seen this morning by our feeders, but at the pond on Schoolhouse, in among the usual Canada Geese and Mallards, I found one odd goose.

My first reaction was that it was some sort of hybrid goose or an immature goose. I wasn't carrying a field guide. I knew it wasn't a barnyard goose--I have enough experience with those--but this is a case of context. Had I seen this bird at Brig I would probably have called it immediately. However, in our little pond it seemed weirder than it really is. I should have remembered that this spring we had Tundra Swans and a Redhead in that pond, so it can attract more than the very common species. But then, I didn't believe I was looking at  Tundra Swans at first either.

When I showed this picture to Shari after I got home, she, not being biased by the location, immediately said "Snow Goose." I looked it up in Sibley's and yes, it had all the field marks of an immature Snow Goose (dingy color, black bill) that were throwing me off. I put up a few pictures on line and asked for help on Jerseybirds and almost immediately confirmations of Snow Goose came pinging in.

Now, the big deal here, for me, is that I hadn't had Snow Goose all year in Ocean County, and had pretty much given up looking for new birds after hearing the Sedge Wren on the Barnegat Christmas Bird Count this Sunday. This was my 233rd bird in Ocean County for me this year, an all time high for me, but good only for a very distant second place overall.

I think, if nothing else, my list shows the amazing diversity of birds in Ocean County, blessed as it is with both a long shoreline, plenty of marshes, and vast upland habitat.

Species              First Sighting

Snow Goose     Crestwood Village                      

Brant     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                  

Canada Goose     Crestwood Village                  

Mute Swan     Cattus Island County Park                      

Tundra Swan    Whitesbog (Ocean Co.)             

Wood Duck     New Egypt              

Gadwall     Forsythe--Barnegat                 

American Wigeon     Marshall's Pond                 

American Black Duck     Riverfront Landing                  

Mallard     Crestwood Village                    

Northern Shoveler     Forsythe--Barnegat                      

Northern Pintail     Bayview Ave Park                 

Green-winged Teal     Forsythe--Barnegat                     

Canvasback     Riverfront Landing                      

Redhead     Riverfront Landing                

Ring-necked Duck     Double Trouble State Park                     

Greater Scaup     Little Silver Lake                       

Lesser Scaup     Riverfront Landing                    

King Eider     Barnegat Lighthouse SP               

Common Eider     Great Sedge Island                 

Harlequin Duck     Barnegat Lighthouse SP                 

Surf Scoter     Barnegat Lighthouse SP             

White-winged Scoter     Barnegat Lighthouse SP                    

Black Scoter     Barnegat Lighthouse SP                       

Long-tailed Duck     Manasquan Inlet                 

Bufflehead     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                   

Common Goldeneye     Great Bay Bvld. WMA              

Hooded Merganser     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                 

Common Merganser     Prospertown Lake                     

Red-breasted Merganser     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                   

Ruddy Duck     Riverfront Landing                      

Northern Bobwhite     Colliers Mills WMA                      

Ring-necked Pheasant     Warren Grove                       

Wild Turkey     Rt. 70                      

Red-throated Loon     Barnegat Lighthouse SP            

Common Loon     Manasquan Inlet                     

Pied-billed Grebe     Double Trouble State Park                       

Horned Grebe     Little Silver Lake                       

Red-necked Grebe     Manasquan Inlet              

Northern Gannet     Manasquan Inlet                 

Double-crested Cormorant     Barnegat Lighthouse SP                      

Great Cormorant     Barnegat Lighthouse SP                

Brown Pelican     Great Sedge Island                 

American Bittern     Great Sedge Island              

Great Blue Heron     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                    

Great Egret     Cattus Island County Park                       

Snowy Egret     Island Beach SP             

Little Blue Heron     Cattus Island County Park             

Tricolored Heron     Cattus Island County Park             

Green Heron    Whitesbog (Ocean Co.)              

Black-crowned Night-Heron     Island Beach SP                      

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                       

Glossy Ibis     Cattus Island County Park                       

Black Vulture     New Egypt                      

Turkey Vulture     Crestwood Village                   

Osprey     Cattus Island County Park                  

Northern Harrier     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                      

Sharp-shinned Hawk     Colliers Mills WMA                  

Cooper's Hawk     Crestwood Community Gardens                 

Bald Eagle     Double Trouble State Park                       

Red-shouldered Hawk   Bridge to Nowhere                  

Broad-winged Hawk     Double Trouble State Park                  

Red-tailed Hawk     Whiting--Power line cut                  

Clapper Rail     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                 

American Coot     Lake of the Lilies                     

American Avocet     Forsythe--Barnegat             

American Oystercatcher     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                     

Black-bellied Plover     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                

American Golden-Plover    Holgate                     

Semipalmated Plover     Great Bay Bvld. WMA             

Piping Plover     Barnegat Lighthouse SP                     

Killdeer     Great Bay Bvld. WMA              

Spotted Sandpiper     Lake Enno             

Solitary Sandpiper     Butterfly Bogs                    

Greater Yellowlegs    Eno's Pond            

Willet     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                  

Lesser Yellowlegs     Forsythe--Barnegat                       

Upland Sandpiper     Lakehurst NAES               

Whimbrel     Great Sedge Island              

Marbled Godwit     Great Sedge Island                

Ruddy Turnstone     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                    

Red Knot     Great Sedge Island               

Stilt Sandpiper     Forsythe--Barnegat                 

Sanderling     Barnegat Lighthouse SP              

Dunlin     Great Bay Bvld. WMA               

Purple Sandpiper     Barnegat Lighthouse SP              

Least Sandpiper     Cattus Island County Park             

Pectoral Sandpiper    Eno's Pond            

Semipalmated Sandpiper     Island Beach SP              

Short-billed Dowitcher     Island Beach SP                    

Long-billed Dowitcher     Bayview Marina                      

Wilson's Snipe    Eno's Pond                   

American Woodcock     Crestwood Community Gardens                    

Bonaparte's Gull     Manasquan Inlet                  

Laughing Gull     Toms River bus station                       

Ring-billed Gull     Crestwood Village                 

Herring Gull     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                  

Lesser Black-backed Gull     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                  

Great Black-backed Gull     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                    

Least Tern     Double Trouble State Park            

Caspian Tern     Great Sedge Island                   

Black Tern     Great Sedge Island            

Common Tern     Barnegat Lighthouse SP                    

Forster's Tern     Cattus Island County Park                  

Royal Tern     Barnegat Lighthouse SP              

Black Skimmer     Great Bay Bvld. WMA             

Rock Pigeon     Warren Grove                  

Mourning Dove     35 Sunset Rd             

Yellow-billed Cuckoo     Colliers Mills WMA                  

Black-billed Cuckoo    Whitesbog (Ocean Co.)             

Eastern Screech-Owl     35 Sunset Rd               

Great Horned Owl     35 Sunset Rd                     

Snowy Owl   Bridge to Nowhere               

Short-eared Owl   Bridge to Nowhere                 

Common Nighthawk     Lakehurst NAES                       

Chuck-will's-widow     Collinstown Rd                

Eastern Whip-poor-will     35 Sunset Rd            

Chimney Swift     Prospertown Lake                   

Ruby-throated Hummingbird     35 Sunset Rd              

Belted Kingfisher     Horicon Lake                       

Red-headed Woodpecker     Colliers Mills WMA                      

Red-bellied Woodpecker     35 Sunset Rd                     

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker     Crestwood Village            

Downy Woodpecker     35 Sunset Rd                 

Hairy Woodpecker     Whiting WMA                    

Northern Flicker     Crestwood Village                

American Kestrel     Colliers Mills WMA              

Merlin     Crestwood Village                      

Peregrine Falcon     Barnegat Lighthouse SP              

Eastern Wood-Pewee     Colliers Mills WMA                 

Acadian Flycatcher     Double Trouble State Park                    

Willow Flycatcher     Double Trouble State Park                       

Least Flycatcher     Colliers Mills WMA               

Eastern Phoebe     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                      

Great Crested Flycatcher     Double Trouble State Park                      

Eastern Kingbird    Whitesbog (Ocean Co.)                   

Northern Shrike    Whitesbog (Ocean Co.)                    

White-eyed Vireo    Whitesbog (Ocean Co.)                  

Blue-headed Vireo     Cattus Island County Park                     

Warbling Vireo     Colliers Mills WMA                  

Red-eyed Vireo     Island Beach SP                    

Blue Jay     35 Sunset Rd              

American Crow     35 Sunset Rd              

Fish Crow     Horicon Lake            

Common Raven     Lakehurst NAES                  

Horned Lark     Lakehurst NAES              

Northern Rough-winged Swallow     Great Bay Bvld. WMA               

Purple Martin    Whitesbog (Ocean Co.)             

Tree Swallow     Prospertown Lake                     

Bank Swallow     Forsythe--Barnegat                  

Barn Swallow    Whitesbog (Ocean Co.)            

Carolina Chickadee     35 Sunset Rd                 

Tufted Titmouse     35 Sunset Rd            

Red-breasted Nuthatch     Wells Mills Park                    

White-breasted Nuthatch     35 Sunset Rd                    

Brown Creeper     Crestwood Village                  

House Wren    Whitesbog (Ocean Co.)              

Winter Wren     Ocean County Parks Offices                

Sedge Wren     Manahawking WMA--Beach Ave                     

Marsh Wren     Island Beach SP              

Carolina Wren     35 Sunset Rd               

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher     Colliers Mills WMA                

Golden-crowned Kinglet     Whiting--Power line cut                

Ruby-crowned Kinglet     Crestwood Village                 

Eastern Bluebird     Horicon Lake            

Veery     Double Trouble State Park                    

Gray-cheeked Thrush     Double Trouble State Park               

Swainson's Thrush     Wells Mills Park               

Hermit Thrush     Crestwood Village                    

Wood Thrush     FREC                  

American Robin     Lakewood                  

Gray Catbird     Island Beach SP             

Brown Thrasher     Colliers Mills WMA               

Northern Mockingbird     New Egypt                    

European Starling     Crestwood Village            

Cedar Waxwing     Cattus Island County Park              

Lapland Longspur     Island Beach SP               

Snow Bunting     Island Beach SP                      

Ovenbird     Double Trouble State Park              

Louisiana Waterthrush     Double Trouble State Park             

Northern Waterthrush    Whitesbog (Ocean Co.)                      

Blue-winged Warbler     Colliers Mills WMA                  

Black-and-white Warbler     Colliers Mills WMA            

Orange-crowned Warbler     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                  

Nashville Warbler     Island Beach SP--Reed's Road              

Common Yellowthroat    Whitesbog (Ocean Co.)                     

American Redstart     Double Trouble State Park                     

Northern Parula    Whitesbog (Ocean Co.)                    

Magnolia Warbler     Double Trouble State Park                       

Bay-breasted Warbler     Island Beach SP                     

Blackburnian Warbler    Eno's Pond                   

Yellow Warbler    Whitesbog (Ocean Co.)                      

Blackpoll Warbler     Island Beach SP                

Black-throated Blue Warbler     Island Beach SP                     

Palm Warbler     Double Trouble State Park                  

Pine Warbler     35 Sunset Rd                  

Yellow-rumped Warbler     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                     

Prairie Warbler    Whitesbog (Ocean Co.)                      

Black-throated Green Warbler     Island Beach SP                   

Canada Warbler     Island Beach SP                  

Eastern Towhee     Colliers Mills WMA               

American Tree Sparrow     35 Sunset Rd                       

Chipping Sparrow     Crestwood Village             

Clay-colored Sparrow     Great Bay Bvld. WMA             

Field Sparrow    Whitesbog (Ocean Co.)            

Savannah Sparrow     Barnegat Lighthouse SP                       

Grasshopper Sparrow     Colliers Mills WMA                 

Saltmarsh Sparrow     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                 

Seaside Sparrow     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                     

Fox Sparrow     35 Sunset Rd                   

Song Sparrow     35 Sunset Rd                

Lincoln's Sparrow     Colliers Mills WMA            

Swamp Sparrow     Horicon Lake             

White-throated Sparrow     35 Sunset Rd                       

White-crowned Sparrow     Double Trouble State Park                       

Dark-eyed Junco     35 Sunset Rd                       

Scarlet Tanager     FREC              

Northern Cardinal     35 Sunset Rd                     

Rose-breasted Grosbeak    Whitesbog (Ocean Co.)                 

Blue Grosbeak     Prospertown Lake                   

Indigo Bunting     Colliers Mills WMA                  

Bobolink     Island Beach SP--Reed's Road                  

Red-winged Blackbird     Cattus Island County Park               

Eastern Meadowlark     Lakehurst NAES                       

Common Grackle     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                    

Boat-tailed Grackle     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                  

Brown-headed Cowbird     35 Sunset Rd                       

Orchard Oriole    Whitesbog (Ocean Co.)                       

Baltimore Oriole     Lake Enno                  

House Finch     35 Sunset Rd                  

Purple Finch     Great Bay Bvld. WMA                

American Goldfinch     35 Sunset Rd                 

House Sparrow     35 Sunset Rd

Year in Review

Since I doubt I'll add any new birds to the list tomorrow, I may as well sum up the year now. I had 323 species this year, which beats last year's total handily. Lifers totaled 11 species, not counting the rather dubious Egyptian Geese of this month.

I birded virtually every day--there are only a handful of blank spots on the calendar where I did not list a bird, so it isn't surprising that I had a good year, especially with a trip to New Mexico and to the Delmarva Peninsula.

Rufous Hummingbird
Photo: Shari Zirlin

A quick month by month review of the highlights:
January: We started the year down in Cape May where we had an amazing day. When you find a Painted Bunting on one side of a tree and White-winged Dove on the other side--before noon, you're doing pretty well. Other great birds that day were a Rufous Hummingbird at a feeder near the first two rarities, a Eurasian Wigeon on the Lighthouse Pond and our first Snowy Owl of the year, one of the many from the record-setting influx that looks to be continuing this winter, if to a somewhat lesser degree.


February: After a trip to Barnegat Light, where we picked up the two specialties of the house--Harlequin Duck and Purple Sandpiper--a few of us drove over to the mainland at dusk to search the marshes around the Bridge to Nowhere for Short-eared Owls. While waiting for them to arise from the reeds, Shari found another Snowy Owl--which was harassed by a Peregrine Falcon. After that show was over, the Short-ears did indeed start to fly over the reeds, looking for whatever little mammals they could find.

Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Photo: Shari Zirlin

March: We got our first lifer of the year. After many trips around the Mercer Sod Farm IBA on multiple occasions, we finally found the ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK that had been hunting those fields. The oddity of the month occurred while we were on the dikes at Brig. A text message came through that a Eurasian Tree Sparrow had been found in (where else) Cape May. Since this bird was about 1200 miles from where it "should" be (St. Louis) we headed down there and got the bird.

ROSS'S GOOSE
Photo: Shari Zirlin

Earlier in the month we'd gone down to Cape May so I could tick off ROSS'S GOOSE, a bird Shari had on her list for a long time, but one I'd always missed. It was just about the easiest lifer you could have. I saw it before we even got out of the car, which, considering that one usually has to sort through thousands of Snow Geese to find the one Ross's, is amazing.

April brought in the warblers and with trips to Estell Manor and Belleplain Forest we got lots of them, including the very beautiful Yellow-throated and Prothonotary Warblers. I was also able to add Louisiana Warbler to my Ocean County list, thanks to my friend Greg who found it in Double Trouble SP and was patient enough to help me find it. It is a very rare bird for this county.

BLACK-BILLED MAGPIE
Photo: Shari Zirlin

May: New Mexico. Here we got the largest number lifers for the year: BLACK-BILLED MAGPIE, NORTHERN GOSHAWK, EVENING GROSBEAK, MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD, PINYON JAY, AMERICAN DIPPER and WILLIAMSON'S SAPSUCKER.

June: This is the month that we get onto the Lakehurst Naval Base to search for Upland Sandpiper, which we were successful at finding. It is just about the only reliable spot in New Jersey to get this endangered sandpiper. We also made our first trip up to Old Mine Road in Warren County with Pete & Mike, a place we'd always wanted to go but seemed "just too far" until Mike kindly drove us up there. We still had to get up at 4 in the morning though!

Whimbrel
Photo: Greg Prelilch

July: I made the first of what became practically weekly trips with Greg in his canoe to explore Great Sedge Island off Island Beach. We had remarkable birds  out there all summer, including American Bittern, Black Tern, multiple Marbled Godwits multiple times, and out of season Common Eider and Red-breasted Merganser.

August is the month to start looking for "grasspipers." We found American Golden-Plover on an out-of-the-way sod farm in Monmouth County and Buff-breasted Sandpiper at both Brig and Whitesbog. A trip down to Bombay Hook yielded our lifer SEDGE WREN, as well as American Avocet and Black-necked Stilt.

September: The big event of this month was probably the rarest bird to hit New Jersey since the Northern Lapwings of last year--a WHISKERED TERN, a European species, was found on the beach at Cape May (naturally) and brought in birders from literally across the land. We, fortunately, only had to travel about an hour and half, on a drizzly Saturday afternoon and were lucky enough to spot it both on the beach and hunting over Bunker Pond in the company of a Black Tern.

October: This is the month for sparrows. I was able to add 2 sparrows to my Ocean County list--a Clay-colored Sparrow down on Great Bay Blvd, and a Lincoln's Sparrow mixed in with a large flock of other sparrows at Colliers Mills.

Brown-headed Nuthatch
Photo: Shari Zirlin

November: We went on the Audubon field trip to the Delmarva Peninsula. I only expect to add two birds for the year--White Ibis and Brown-headed Nuthatch, so I was happily surprised to add Black-headed Gull at a waste treatment plant in southern Delaware (what's a vacation without one visit to a waste treatment plant?) many calling Virginia Rails (in Virginia, I just realized) and a Golden Eagle at the extreme southern tip of the peninsula. Not to mention a Western Kingbird, but we already had that from New Mexico.

December turned out to be "goose month." It seemed like when I wasn't doing a Christmas count (Shari & I did the revived Island Beach count mid-month and I helped Mike on the Barnegat count on Sunday), I was looking for rare geese. I successfully chased the Pink-footed Goose in Wall Twp, the Barnacle Goose and Greater White-fronted Geese in both Monroe Twp and at Duke Island Park, and a Cackling Goose at the Duke Island Park, as well as the can't-quite-count-em-but-fun-to-see Egyptian Geese at Spring Lake.

Below is the full list for the year in all its taxonomicaly eye-glazing glory.

ALL CAPS BOLD are lifers.
Italics are rarities.

Species                                    First Sighting 

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck     Patriot Lake      

Pink-footed Goose     Allaire Community Farm  

Greater White-fronted Goose     Applegarth Road         

Snow Goose     Assunpink WMA 

ROSS'S GOOSE     Sea Grove Ave.       

Brant     Sunset Lake          

Barnacle Goose     Applegarth Road       

Cackling Goose     Duke Island Park       

Canada Goose     Cape May Point SP    

Mute Swan     Cape May Point SP          

Trumpeter Swan     Assunpink WMA      

Tundra Swan     Whitesbog          

Egyptian Goose*    Spring Lake Park      

Wood Duck     Central Park           

Gadwall     Cape May Point SP    

Eurasian Wigeon     Cape May Point SP           

American Wigeon     Cape May Point SP           

American Black Duck     Riverfront Landing      

Mallard     Cape May Point SP      

Blue-winged Teal     Brig   

Northern Shoveler     Cape May Point SP          

Northern Pintail     Cape May Point SP  

Green-winged Teal     Brig

Canvasback     Riverfront Landing          

Redhead     Cape May Point SP  

Ring-necked Duck     Cape May Point SP         

Greater Scaup     Little Silver Lake           

Lesser Scaup     Cape May Point SP      

King Eider     Nummy Island         

Common Eider    Cape May          

Harlequin Duck     Barnegat Lighthouse SP     

Surf Scoter     Two Mile Beach     

White-winged Scoter     Cape May          

Black Scoter     Two Mile Beach   

Long-tailed Duck     Two Mile Beach       

Bufflehead     Sunset Lake           

Common Goldeneye   Lily Lake   

Hooded Merganser     Cape May Point SP        

Common Merganser     Assunpink WMA           

Red-breasted Merganser     Great Bay Blvd WMA        

Ruddy Duck     Cape May Point SP        

Northern Bobwhite     Bombay Hook       

Ring-necked Pheasant     Warren Grove           

Wild Turkey     Rt. 70          

Red-throated Loon     Two Mile Beach    

Common Loon     Sunset Lake     

Pied-billed Grebe     Double Trouble State Park           

Horned Grebe     Sunset Lake      

Red-necked Grebe     Manasquan Inlet  

Eared Grebe     Sandy Hook         

Northern Gannet     Manasquan Inlet     

Double-crested Cormorant     Cape May Point SP       

Great Cormorant     Two Mile Beach        

American White Pelican     Prime Hook NWR   

Brown Pelican    Great Sedge Island      

American Bittern    Great Sedge Island   

Great Blue Heron     Cape May Point SP           

Great Egret     Brig   

Snowy Egret     Brig

Little Blue Heron     Cattus Island County Park 

Tricolored Heron     Cattus Island County Park 

Green Heron     Whitesbog  (Ocean Co.)

Black-crowned Night-Heron     Island Beach SP          

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron     Great Bay Blvd WMA

White Ibis     Chincoteague NWR            

Glossy Ibis     Brig   

Black Vulture     New Egypt          

Turkey Vulture     Cape May Point SP    

Osprey     Brig          

Golden Eagle     Eastern Shore of Virginia NWR         

Northern Harrier     Cape May Point SP  

Sharp-shinned Hawk     Colliers Mills WMA      

Cooper's Hawk     Cape May Point SP    

NORTHERN GOSHAWK     Santa Fe NF         

Bald Eagle     Cape May    

Red-shouldered Hawk     Cape May Point SP  

Broad-winged Hawk     Estell Manor Park          

Red-tailed Hawk    Cape May       

ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK     Mercer Sod Farm IBA     

Clapper Rail     Heislerville WMA 

Virginia Rail     Saxis WMA           

Common Gallinule     Cape May Point SP         

American Coot     Cape May Point SP    

Black-necked Stilt     Prime Hook NWR  

American Avocet     Bombay Hook          

American Oystercatcher     Nummy Island         

Black-bellied Plover     Great Bay Blvd WMA     

American Golden-Plover     Reed's Sod Farm   

Semipalmated Plover     Stone Harbor Point     

Piping Plover     Barnegat Lighthouse SP         

Killdeer     Great Bay Blvd WMA   

Spotted Sandpiper     Whitesbog 

Solitary Sandpiper     Butterfly Bogs        

Greater Yellowlegs     Eno's Pond           

Willet     Villas--Miami Ave. beach

Lesser Yellowlegs     Heislerville WMA   

Upland Sandpiper     Lakehurst NAES   

Whimbrel     Brig      

Marbled Godwit    Great Sedge Island     

Ruddy Turnstone     Two Mile Beach      

Red Knot    Great Sedge Island    

Stilt Sandpiper     Brig        

Sanderling     Two Mile Beach     

Dunlin     Two Mile Beach 

Purple Sandpiper     Two Mile Beach      

Least Sandpiper     Brig     

White-rumped Sandpiper     Brig  

Buff-breasted Sandpiper     Brig   

Pectoral Sandpiper     Whitesbog

Semipalmated Sandpiper     Brig 

Western Sandpiper     Brig

Short-billed Dowitcher     Heislerville WMA       

Long-billed Dowitcher     Brig       

Wilson's Snipe     Eno's Pond      

American Woodcock     Whitesbog          

Wilson's Phalarope     Brig

Common Murre     Sunset Lake   

Bonaparte's Gull     Two Mile Beach       

Black-headed Gull     Wolfe Neck WTP  

Laughing Gull     Palmyra Cove Nature Park    

Ring-billed Gull     Cape May Point SP   

Herring Gull     Cape May Point SP         

Lesser Black-backed Gull     Great Bay Blvd WMA       

Glaucous Gull     Brig         

Great Black-backed Gull     Nummy Island         

Least Tern     Double Trouble State Park

Gull-billed Tern     Brig       

Caspian Tern     Brig          

Black Tern     Brig    

WHISKERED TERN     Cape May Point SP     

Common Tern     Barnegat Lighthouse SP        

Forster's Tern     Cattus Island County Park      

Royal Tern     Barnegat Lighthouse SP  

Black Skimmer     Brig        

Rock Pigeon     Warren Grove      

Eurasian Collared-Dove     Santa Fe River Park          

White-winged Dove    Cape May 

Mourning Dove     Cape May        

Yellow-billed Cuckoo     Colliers Mills WMA      

Black-billed Cuckoo     Ernest L. Oros Wildlife Preserve         

Eastern Screech-Owl     35 Sunset Rd   

Great Horned Owl     35 Sunset Rd         

Snowy Owl     Two Mile Beach      

Short-eared Owl   Bridge to Nowhere     

Common Nighthawk     Lakehurst NAES           

Chuck-will's-widow     Brig

Eastern Whip-poor-will     35 Sunset Rd

Chimney Swift     Brig        

White-throated Swift     Bandelier NM     

Ruby-throated Hummingbird     Belleplain State Forest          

Black-chinned Hummingbird     Randall Davey Audubon Center    

Broad-tailed Hummingbird     Delgado St           

Rufous Hummingbird     Cape May          

Belted Kingfisher     Horicon Lake           

Red-headed Woodpecker     Ernest L. Oros Wildlife Preserve           

Acorn Woodpecker     Bandelier Entrance Rd   

Red-bellied Woodpecker     35 Sunset Rd         

WILLIAMSON'S SAPSUCKER     Santa Fe NF           

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker     Crestwood Village

Downy Woodpecker     Cape May Point SP       

Hairy Woodpecker     Assunpink WMA   

Northern Flicker     GSP MM 30    

American Kestrel     Assunpink WMA     

Merlin     East Windsor       

Peregrine Falcon     Brig    

Monk Parakeet     Carteret 

Olive-sided Flycatcher     The Celery Farm        

Eastern Wood-Pewee     Colliers Mills WMA     

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher     Sandy Hook           

Acadian Flycatcher     Double Trouble State Park        

Willow Flycatcher     Ernest L. Oros Wildlife Preserve 

Least Flycatcher     Old Mine Road IBA  

Gray Flycatcher     Bandelier NM 

Black Phoebe     Cerillos   

Eastern Phoebe     Great Bay Blvd WMA           

Great Crested Flycatcher     Double Trouble State Park          

Western Kingbird     Cerillos         

Eastern Kingbird     Whitesbog  (Ocean Co.)     

Northern Shrike     Whitesbog  (Ocean Co.)       

White-eyed Vireo     Whitesbog    

Yellow-throated Vireo     Allaire State Park        

Plumbeous Vireo     Cibola NF     

Blue-headed Vireo     Cattus Island County Park         

Warbling Vireo     Santa Fe River Park   

Red-eyed Vireo     Island Beach SP        

PINYON JAY     Pecos       

Steller's Jay     Randall Davey Audubon Center           

Blue Jay     Cape May Point SP   

Western Scrub-Jay     Randall Davey Audubon Center          

BLACK-BILLED MAGPIE     Santa Fe River Park       

American Crow     Cape May Point SP   

Fish Crow     Pandora Diner parking lot 

Common Raven     Whitesbog     

Horned Lark     East Windsor        

Northern Rough-winged Swallow     Whitesbog           

Purple Martin     Brig           

Tree Swallow     Brig           

Violet-green Swallow     Randall Davey Audubon Center      

Bank Swallow     Sandy Hook      

Barn Swallow     Whitesbog  (Ocean Co.)          

Cliff Swallow     Cerillos     

Carolina Chickadee    Cape May 

Black-capped Chickadee     Cape May   

Mountain Chickadee     Randall Davey Audubon Center      

Juniper Titmouse     Santa Fe Canyon Preserve          

Tufted Titmouse     35 Sunset Rd

Bushtit     Delgado St         

Red-breasted Nuthatch     Cape May      

White-breasted Nuthatch     35 Sunset Rd        

Pygmy Nuthatch     Santa Fe NF 

Brown-headed Nuthatch     Chincoteague NWR         

Brown Creeper     Assunpink WMA         

Rock Wren     Bandelier NM         

House Wren     Whitesbog  (Ocean Co.)

Winter Wren     Ocean County Parks Offices    

SEDGE WREN     Bombay Hook 

Marsh Wren     Brig 

Carolina Wren     35 Sunset Rd   

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher     Colliers Mills WMA    

AMERICAN DIPPER     Santa Fe NF     

Golden-crowned Kinglet     Whiting        

Ruby-crowned Kinglet     Crestwood Village     

Eastern Bluebird     Assunpink WMA      

Western Bluebird     Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve           

MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD     Cerillos        

Townsend's Solitaire     Santa Fe NF      

Veery     William Warren County Park     

Gray-cheeked Thrush     William Warren County Park

Swainson's Thrush     William Warren County Park    

Hermit Thrush     Crestwood Village        

Wood Thrush     FREC      

American Robin     Cape May Pt College Streets         

Gray Catbird     Cape May Point SP        

Brown Thrasher     Brig      

Northern Mockingbird     Cape May         

European Starling     Cape May Point SP          

Cedar Waxwing     Cape May       

Lapland Longspur     Stone Harbor Point           

Snow Bunting     Stone Harbor Point      

Ovenbird     Belleplain State Forest         

Worm-eating Warbler     Belleplain State Forest           

Louisiana Waterthrush     Belleplain State Forest        

Northern Waterthrush     Whitesbog  (Ocean Co.)        

Blue-winged Warbler     Colliers Mills WMA      

Black-and-white Warbler     Colliers Mills WMA

Prothonotary Warbler     Belleplain State Forest           

Tennessee Warbler     Ernest L. Oros Wildlife Preserve          

Orange-crowned Warbler     Santa Fe NF          

Nashville Warbler    Reed's Road

Virginia's Warbler     La Cueva Valley     

MacGillivray's Warbler     Bandelier NM--Falls Trail      

Mourning Warbler     Ernest L. Oros Wildlife Preserve 

Common Yellowthroat     Whitesbog  (Ocean Co.)       

Hooded Warbler     Evert Memorial Nature Trail

American Redstart     Double Trouble State Park         

Cerulean Warbler     Old Mine Road IBA

Northern Parula     Whitesbog  (Ocean Co.)      

Magnolia Warbler     Double Trouble State Park           

Bay-breasted Warbler     Island Beach SP         

Blackburnian Warbler     Eno's Pond      

Yellow Warbler     Brig        

Chestnut-sided Warbler     William Warren County Park        

Blackpoll Warbler     Island Beach SP    

Black-throated Blue Warbler     Island Beach SP         

Palm Warbler     Double Trouble State Park      

Pine Warbler     35 Sunset Rd      

Yellow-rumped Warbler     Cape May Point SP 

Yellow-throated Warbler     Estell Manor Park   

Prairie Warbler     Whitesbog  (Ocean Co.)        

Black-throated Gray Warbler     La Cueva Valley          

Black-throated Green Warbler     Reed's Road  

Canada Warbler     Island Beach SP      

Wilson's Warbler     Santa Fe Canyon Preserve           

Yellow-breasted Chat     Assunpink WMA         

Green-tailed Towhee     Santa Fe NF     

Spotted Towhee     Delgado St     

Eastern Towhee     Assunpink WMA      

Canyon Towhee     Santa Fe Canyon Preserve           

American Tree Sparrow     Cape May      

Chipping Sparrow     Crestwood Village 

Clay-colored Sparrow     Great Bay Blvd WMA  

Field Sparrow     Brig          

Savannah Sparrow     Brig

Grasshopper Sparrow     Colliers Mills WMA     

Nelson's Sparrow     Sandy Hook

Saltmarsh Sparrow     Great Bay Blvd WMA      

Seaside Sparrow     Brig    

Fox Sparrow     Assunpink WMA 

Song Sparrow     35 Sunset Rd    

Lincoln's Sparrow     Colliers Mills WMA

Swamp Sparrow     Horicon Lake 

White-throated Sparrow     35 Sunset Rd           

White-crowned Sparrow     Assunpink WMA     

Dark-eyed Junco     Cape May     

Hepatic Tanager     Randall Davey Audubon Center  

Scarlet Tanager     FREC  

Western Tanager     Santa Fe River Park           

Northern Cardinal     Cape May   

Rose-breasted Grosbeak     Whitesbog  (Ocean Co.)   

Black-headed Grosbeak     Randall Davey Audubon Center 

Blue Grosbeak     Prospertown Lake       

Indigo Bunting     Assunpink WMA         

Painted Bunting    Cape May       

Dickcissel     Negri-Nepote Grasslands  

Bobolink     Bombay Hook 

Red-winged Blackbird     Assunpink WMA        

Eastern Meadowlark     Lakehurst NAES           

Rusty Blackbird     Prospect Park 

Brewer's Blackbird     Pecos          

Common Grackle     Great Bay Blvd WMA         

Boat-tailed Grackle     Nummy Island      

Great-tailed Grackle     DFW         

Brown-headed Cowbird     Assunpink WMA     

Orchard Oriole     Whitesbog  (Ocean Co.)         

Baltimore Oriole     Central Park   

House Finch     Cape May            

Purple Finch     Great Bay Blvd WMA     

Pine Siskin     Delgado St Feeder

Lesser Goldfinch     Cerillos          

American Goldfinch     35 Sunset Rd     

EVENING GROSBEAK     Delgado St    

House Sparrow    Cape May    

Eurasian Tree Sparrow     Cape May