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Species First Sighting
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Canada Goose Forsythe-Barnegat
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Mute Swan Lake of the Lilies
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Wood Duck Colliers Mills WMA
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American Black
Duck Whitesbog
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Mallard Whitesbog
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Northern Shoveler Forsythe-Barnegat
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Red-breasted Merganser Sandy
Hook
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Wild Turkey 35 Sunset Rd
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Common Loon Island Beach SP--Reed's Road
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Pied-billed Grebe Double Trouble State Park
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Double-crested
Cormorant Island Beach SP
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Brown Pelican Island Beach SP--Winter Anchorage
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Great Blue Heron Whitesbog
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Great Egret Island Beach SP
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Snowy Egret Island Beach SP
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Little Blue Heron Brig
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Tricolored Heron Island Beach SP
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Reddish Egret
Island Beach SP--Winter Anchorage
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Green Heron Cloverdale Farm
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Black-crowned
Night-Heron Brig
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Yellow-crowned
Night-Heron Great Bay Blvd
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Glossy Ibis Great Bay Blvd
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Black Vulture Sandy Hook
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Turkey Vulture 35 Sunset Rd
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Osprey Island Beach SP
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Northern Harrier Brig
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Sharp-shinned
Hawk Sandy Hook
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Cooper's Hawk Gordon Road Reed's Sod Farm
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Bald Eagle Whitesbog
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Red-tailed Hawk Crestwood Village
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Clapper Rail Sandy Hook
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Common Gallinule Lake
of the Lilies
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American
Oystercatcher Sandy Hook--Spermaceti
Cove area
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Black-bellied
Plover Sandy Hook
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Semipalmated
Plover Great Bay Blvd
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Piping Plover Sandy Hook
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Killdeer Whitesbog
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Whimbrel Sandy Hook
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Hudsonian Godwit Brig
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Sanderling Island Beach SP
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Dunlin Sandy Hook
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Baird's Sandpiper Sandy Hook
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Least Sandpiper Whitesbog
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White-rumped
Sandpiper Brig
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Buff-breasted
Sandpiper Gordon Road Reed's Sod Farm
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Pectoral
Sandpiper Whitesbog
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Semipalmated
Sandpiper Whitesbog
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Western Sandpiper Great Bay Blvd
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Short-billed
Dowitcher Whitesbog
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Wilson's Phalarope
Holmdel-Willowbrook Rd
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Spotted Sandpiper Cloverdale Farm
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Solitary
Sandpiper Cloverdale Farm
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Greater
Yellowlegs Whitesbog
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Willet Sandy Hook
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Lesser Yellowlegs Forsythe-Barnegat
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Parasitic Jaeger Sandy
Hook
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Bonaparte's Gull Sandy Hook--Spermaceti Cove area
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Laughing Gull Island Beach SP
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Ring-billed Gull Sandy Hook
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Herring Gull Island Beach SP--Reed's Road
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Lesser Black-backed
Gull Sandy Hook
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Great Black-backed
Gull Island Beach SP
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Caspian Tern Sandy
Hook
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Common Tern Sandy Hook
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Forster's Tern Great Bay Blvd
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Royal Tern Sandy Hook
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Black Skimmer Brig
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Rock Pigeon Gordon Road Reed's Sod Farm
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Mourning Dove 35 Sunset Rd
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Yellow-billed
Cuckoo Sandy Hook
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Black-billed
Cuckoo Cattus Island County Park
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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 Colliers Mills WMA
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Ruby-throated
Hummingbird 35 Sunset Rd
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Belted Kingfisher Forsythe-Barnegat
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Red-headed
Woodpecker Cloverdale Farm
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Red-bellied
Woodpecker Whitesbog
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Downy Woodpecker 35 Sunset Rd
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Hairy Woodpecker Cloverdale Farm
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Northern Flicker Forsythe-Barnegat
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American Kestrel Forsythe-Barnegat
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Merlin Whitesbog
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Peregrine Falcon Great Bay Blvd
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Eastern
Wood-Pewee 35 Sunset Rd
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Eastern Phoebe Whitesbog
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Great Crested
Flycatcher Cloverdale Farm
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Eastern Kingbird Brig
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White-eyed Vireo Sandy Hook--Spermaceti Cove area
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Yellow-throated
Vireo Sandy Hook
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Blue-headed Vireo Sandy Hook
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Philadelphia
Vireo Sandy Hook
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Warbling Vireo Island Beach SP
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Red-eyed Vireo Island Beach SP--Reed's Road
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Blue Jay 35 Sunset Rd
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American Crow 35 Sunset Rd
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Fish Crow 35 Sunset Rd
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Purple Martin Whitesbog
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Tree Swallow Whitesbog
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Bank Swallow Island Beach SP
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Barn Swallow Great Bay Blvd
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Carolina
Chickadee 35 Sunset Rd
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Black-capped
Chickadee Sandy Hook
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Tufted Titmouse 35 Sunset Rd
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Red-breasted
Nuthatch Island Beach SP--Reed's Road
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White-breasted
Nuthatch 35 Sunset Rd
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House Wren Colliers Mills WMA
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Winter Wren Ocean
County Parks Offices
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Marsh Wren Sandy Hook
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Carolina Wren Island Beach SP--Reed's Road
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Blue-gray
Gnatcatcher Cloverdale Farm
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Ruby-crowned
Kinglet Sandy Hook
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Eastern Bluebird Cloverdale Farm
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Veery Sandy Hook
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Swainson's Thrush Linden Hawk Rise Sanctuary
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American Robin Whitesbog
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Gray Catbird Whitesbog
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Brown Thrasher Horicon Lake
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Northern
Mockingbird Island Beach SP--Reed's
Road
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European Starling Whitesbog
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Cedar Waxwing Sandy Hook
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Northern
Waterthrush Sandy Hook
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Black-and-white
Warbler Brig
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Nashville Warbler Sandy Hook
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Mourning Warbler Sandy
Hook
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Common
Yellowthroat Whitesbog
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American Redstart Island Beach SP--Reed's Road
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Northern Parula Sandy Hook
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Magnolia Warbler Linden Hawk Rise Sanctuary
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Bay-breasted Warbler
Linden Hawk Rise Sanctuary
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Yellow Warbler Brig
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Black-throated Blue
Warbler Sandy Hook
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Palm Warbler Linden Hawk Rise Sanctuary
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Pine Warbler Whitesbog
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Yellow-rumped
Warbler Sandy Hook
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Prairie Warbler Island Beach SP--Reed's Road
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Black-throated Green
Warbler Cloverdale Farm
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Wilson's Warbler Sandy Hook
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Saltmarsh Sparrow Great Bay Blvd
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Seaside Sparrow Great Bay Blvd
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Chipping Sparrow 35 Sunset Rd
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Field Sparrow Sandy Hook
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LARK BUNTING Sandy Hook
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White-throated
Sparrow Island Beach SP
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Savannah Sparrow Sandy Hook
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Song Sparrow Whitesbog
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Eastern Towhee 35 Sunset Rd
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Scarlet Tanager Sandy Hook
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Northern Cardinal 35 Sunset Rd
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Blue Grosbeak Union Transportation Trail--North
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Bobolink Island Beach SP
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Red-winged
Blackbird Great Bay Blvd
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Common Grackle Cattus Island County Park
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Boat-tailed
Grackle Great Bay Blvd
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Baltimore Oriole Colliers Mills WMA
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House Finch 35 Sunset Rd
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American
Goldfinch 35 Sunset Rd
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House Sparrow Wawa Rt 70 & CR 530
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Since I finally ran out of birds to list for Bird A Day earlier in the month, the birding has been a bit more, shall we say, relaxing. I haven't done any birding for the last two days because of long lingering rainstorm that seems to want to stay into October. My last foray was on Wednesday at Island Beach where, while the birding tended to be sparse, I did manage to get another look at our local mega-rarity, the Reddish Egret, which will occasionally show itself dancing around the sand bar that can be viewed from the winter anchorage. A very poor digiscope is to the left. I also came across a small flock of White-throated Sparrows along the Spizzle Creek trail which officially closes out summer and can even be considered the end of the beginning of migration. 
This month I also added a new yard bird to our list (bringing us up to 93). The other day I heard a lot of noise on the roof and just as I was about to get up to investigate I saw a vulture fly down onto the ground. That isn't that unusual, but this bird happened to be a Black Vulture. There were a few of them mixed in with the much more common Turkey Vultures. I went outside to take pictures of the flock, which was moving around from rooftop to rooftop, but kept a certain distance as their defense mechanism consists of projectile vomit. Even though they are harmless (aside from the vomit), they are inescapably creepy, especially when roosting 'round your roof.
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