These wrens behave more like mice than birds, running around in the undergrowth and are, for me, devilishly hard to find. I'd pretty much given up on this species for the year, so I ended the month with 144 species and got the year count up to...(checking eBird)...354.
I had a fun month birding, a lot of it with Mike, as we covered a good swath of the state, and although I only added 5 year birds, one of them was a lifer and a couple of others were rarities so my list looks satisfactory to me.
I also made a couple of trips into NY, once to my beloved Prospect Park and once out to Point Lookout the day after Thanksgiving with our friends Rick & Caroline. Point Lookout yielded 3 month birds--Common Eider, Harlequin Duck, and Purple Sandpiper--the last two saving me the trouble of braving the Barnegat Light jetty for a while.
A few photos from Prospect Park:
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| American Black Duck |
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| AmericanWigeon |
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| Double-crested Cormorant |
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| Northern Shoveler (with a real Brooklyn attitude) |
Counties Birded:
New Jersey: Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Mercer, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Somerset
New York: Kings, Nassau
Species First Sighting
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Snow Goose Brig
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Brant Avalon Seawatch
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Barnacle Goose Etra Lake
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Cackling Goose Etra Lake
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Canada Goose Assunpink
WMA
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Mute Swan Assunpink
WMA
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Tundra Swan Brig
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Wood Duck Avalon
Seawatch
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Gadwall Brig
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Eurasian Wigeon Brig
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American Wigeon Brig
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American Black Duck Brig
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Mallard Double Trouble
State Park
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Blue-winged Teal Brig
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Northern Shoveler Brig
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Northern Pintail Brig
|
Green-winged Teal Brig
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Ring-necked Duck
Assunpink WMA
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Lesser Scaup Lily Lake
|
Common Eider Point
Lookout
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Harlequin Duck Point
Lookout
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Surf Scoter Avalon
Seawatch
|
White-winged Scoter
Barnegat Lighthouse SP
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Black Scoter Avalon
Seawatch
|
Long-tailed Duck
Island Beach SP
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Bufflehead Brig
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Hooded Merganser Brig
|
Common Merganser Sandy
Hook
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Red-breasted Merganser
Sandy Hook
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Ruddy Duck Assunpink
WMA
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Ring-necked Pheasant GSP MM 48
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Wild Turkey Warren
Grove
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Red-throated Loon
Sandy Hook
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Common Loon Avalon
48th St Beach
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Pied-billed Grebe
Assunpink WMA
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Red-necked Grebe
Avalon Seawatch
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Northern Gannet Avalon
Seawatch
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Double-crested Cormorant
Avalon Seawatch
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Great Cormorant
Barnegat Lighthouse SP
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Great Blue Heron
Assunpink WMA
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Great Egret Brig
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Snowy Egret Brig
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Black-crowned Night-Heron
Brig
|
Glossy Ibis GSP MM 48
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Black Vulture The
Beanery
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Turkey Vulture
Assunpink WMA
|
Golden Eagle Scherman-Hoffman
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Northern Harrier Brig
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Sharp-shinned Hawk
Scherman-Hoffman
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Cooper's Hawk Colliers
Mills WMA
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Bald Eagle Brig
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Red-shouldered Hawk
Great Swamp NWR
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Red-tailed Hawk
Colliers Mills WMA
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KING RAIL Brig
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Clapper Rail Great Bay
Blvd
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Virginia Rail Brig
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American Coot Brig
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American Oystercatcher
Avalon Seawatch
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Black-bellied Plover
Avalon 48th St Beach Entrance
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Semipalmated Plover
Barnegat Lighthouse SP
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Killdeer Double
Trouble State Park
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Greater Yellowlegs Brig
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Hudsonian Godwit Brig
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Ruddy Turnstone Avalon
48th St Beach Entrance
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Red Knot Avalon 48th
St Beach Entrance
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Sanderling Avalon 48th
St Beach Entrance
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Dunlin Avalon Seawatch
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Purple Sandpiper Point Lookout
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Least Sandpiper Brig
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White-rumped Sandpiper
Brig
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Semipalmated Sandpiper
Brig
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Western Sandpiper Brig
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Long-billed Dowitcher
Bayview Marina
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Parasitic Jaeger
Avalon Seawatch
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Laughing Gull Avalon
Seawatch
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Ring-billed Gull
Assunpink WMA
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Herring Gull Avalon
Seawatch
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Lesser Black-backed Gull
Sunset Lake (Asbury Park)
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Great Black-backed Gull
Avalon Seawatch
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Forster's Tern Avalon
Seawatch
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Royal Tern Avalon
Seawatch
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Rock Pigeon Avalon
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Mourning Dove 35
Sunset Rd
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Great Horned Owl Brig
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Belted Kingfisher
Assunpink WMA
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Red-bellied Woodpecker
Assunpink WMA
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Colliers Mills WMA
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Downy Woodpecker
Assunpink WMA
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Hairy Woodpecker Sandy
Hook
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Northern Flicker
Assunpink WMA
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Peregrine Falcon Brig
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Eastern Phoebe The
Beanery
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Western Kingbird The Beanery
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Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Brig
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Blue Jay Assunpink WMA
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American Crow
Assunpink WMA
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Fish Crow Bayview
Marina
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Tree Swallow Assunpink
WMA
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Cave Swallow The Beanery
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Carolina Chickadee 35
Sunset Rd
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Black-capped Chickadee
Great Swamp NWR
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Tufted Titmouse 35
Sunset Rd
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White-breasted Nuthatch
Assunpink WMA
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Brown Creeper Whitesbog
Winter Wren
Bunker Hill Bogs
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Carolina Wren
Assunpink WMA
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Golden-crowned Kinglet
Double Trouble State Park
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Assunpink WMA
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Eastern Bluebird
Double Trouble State Park
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Hermit Thrush Whitesbog
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American Robin Assunpink
WMA
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Gray Catbird Brig
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Northern Mockingbird
Assunpink WMA
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European Starling
Assunpink WMA
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Cedar Waxwing
Assunpink WMA
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Snow Bunting Whitesbog
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Orange-crowned Warbler
The Beanery
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Palm Warbler The
Beanery
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Yellow-rumped Warbler
Assunpink WMA
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Seaside Sparrow Brig
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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 Great
Swamp NWR
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Dark-eyed Junco 35
Sunset Rd
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White-crowned Sparrow
Sandy Hook
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White-throated Sparrow
Assunpink WMA
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Vesper Sparrow
Colliers Mills WMA
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Savannah Sparrow
Double Trouble State Park
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Song Sparrow Assunpink
WMA
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Swamp Sparrow Brig
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Eastern Towhee Brig
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Northern Cardinal 35
Sunset Rd
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Red-winged Blackbird
Colliers Mills WMA
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Eastern Meadowlark Brig
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Rusty Blackbird Brig
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Common Grackle Great
Swamp NWR
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Boat-tailed Grackle Brig
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Brown-headed Cowbird
Avalon
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Baltimore Oriole The
Beanery
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House Finch Avalon Seawatch
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Purple Finch The
Beanery
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Pine Siskin Whitesbog
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American Goldfinch
Assunpink WMA
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House Sparrow
Assunpink WMA
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