After lunch we found ourselves not far from Belmar so we made a stop at Maclearie Park to look at the Shark River. Many, many Brant, plus a discouraging number of Mute Swans predominated our scope, but I did find a small flock of Dunlins feeding on a sand bar.
Our final stop was Riverfront Landing in Toms River. I wanted to get Canvasback for the year and county and Redhead for the county. I got the latter. Usually by this time of year, that area is an easy place to pick up Canvasbacks, but they've been scarce this year. I ran into Shawn Wainwright there; he had a few Canvasbacks there yesterday, but he confirmed that they were pretty hard to find so far this winter. I did get Lesser Scaup floating around with the Redheads, plus a huge raft of Ruddy Ducks.
Altogether I had 30 species on the day--not bad considering I thought we'd be indoors the whole day.
Locations birded: 35 Sunset Rd, Maclearie Park, Riverfront Landing, Wall Township.
Brant 1500
Canada Goose 625
Mute Swan 100
Gadwall 2
Mallard 35
Redhead 3
Ring-necked Duck 1
Lesser Scaup 5
Bufflehead 56
Hooded Merganser 5
Red-breasted Merganser 25
Ruddy Duck 500
Double-crested Cormorant
20
Turkey Vulture 3
Dunlin 17
Ring-billed Gull
190
Herring Gull 100
Great Black-backed Gull
11
Rock Pigeon 35
Mourning Dove 5
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Carolina Chickadee
1
Tufted Titmouse 3
White-breasted Nuthatch
1
Carolina Wren 1
European Starling
500
Dark-eyed Junco 12
Northern Cardinal 1
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch
2
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