You, if you're paying attention to these notes, could probably figure out that not much birding-wise was going on for me in October. It wasn't until Scott's Island Beach trip at the end of the month that I added any year birds to the list and they weren't exactly crippling looks--a flyover American Pipit at Johnnie Allen's Cove and a couple of distant Parasitic Jaegers chasing gulls out over the ocean during a sea watch--the kinds of sightings I'll only get on a trip with better eyes ears and more patience than I have.
Even the county birds for the month were merely check marks--I finally found a previously reported Common Gallinule in the county at Tip Seaman Park in Tuckerton after traipsing up to Lake Unpronounceable 3 or 4 times in the summer without success, and scanning a huge flock of American Oystercatchers at Holgate I came upon a Marbled Godwit I was sure would be there since there always seems to be a Marbled Godwit in the oystercatcher flock in the fall at Holgate, but it was identifiable only because it wasn't an oystercatcher.
And that was it for the month. I actually got more armchair birds from eBird splits this month than I did from wandering around beaches and cranberry bogs--Western Warbling Vireo from our various trips out west (eBird assigns our first sighting to Florida Canyon-Lower in Arizona), Little Heron which was split from Striated Heron which was split previously from Green Heron and which we've seen in both South Africa and Australia, and Eurasian Whimbrel which was split from what is now called Hudsonian Whimbrel and which we first sighted on the Cairns Esplanade in Australia and have subsequently seen in Portugal and Spain. There is one other species, apparently, since eBird upped my total by 4, but damned if I can figure out which one it is. Had I been paying attention to sub-species in Puerto Rico and Mexico, I might have added Mangrove Yellow Warbler--actually had I know there was a sub-species I might have made the distinction, but now it simply goes down as a slash Northern Yellow Warbler/Mangrove Yellow Warbler.
I did take some decent pictures though:
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| Immature White-Crowned Sparrow, Spizzle Creek |
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| Immature White Ibis & Little Blue Heron, Lighthouse Center |
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| Lesser Black-backed Gull, Island Beach |
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| Eastern Bluebird, Colliers Mills |
For the month 127 species restricted to Burlington and Ocean Counties:
Brant Great Bay Bvld. WMA
Canada Goose Whiting WMA
Mute Swan Bridge to Nowhere
Wood Duck Cranberry Bogs
Gadwall Stanley H. 'Tip' Seaman County Park
Mallard Cranberry Bogs
American Black Duck Forsythe--Barnegat
Green-winged Teal Reeves Bogs
Ring-necked Duck Riverfront Landing
Common Eider Island Beach SP
Surf Scoter Holgate
Black Scoter Island Beach SP
Wild Turkey 35 Sunset Rd
Rock Pigeon Manasquan Inlet
Mourning Dove Whiting WMA
Common Gallinule Stanley H. 'Tip' Seaman County Park
American Oystercatcher Island Beach SP
Black-bellied Plover Island Beach SP
Killdeer Double Trouble SP
Semipalmated Plover Island Beach SP
Marbled Godwit Holgate
Short-billed Dowitcher Island Beach SP
Spotted Sandpiper Island Beach SP
Willet Island Beach SP
Greater Yellowlegs Forsythe--Barnegat
Sanderling Holgate
Dunlin Cattus Island County Park
White-rumped Sandpiper Whitesbog
Pectoral Sandpiper Whitesbog
Semipalmated Sandpiper Island Beach SP
Parasitic Jaeger Island Beach SP
Laughing Gull Lake Shenandoah County Park
Ring-billed Gull Barnegat Municipal Dock
American Herring Gull Manasquan Inlet
Great Black-backed Gull Manasquan Inlet
Lesser Black-backed Gull Island Beach SP
Forster's Tern Island Beach SP
Royal Tern Manasquan Inlet
Pied-billed Grebe Whitesbog
Horned Grebe Island Beach SP
Red-throated Loon Island Beach SP
Common Loon Island Beach SP
Northern Gannet Island Beach SP
Double-crested Cormorant Manasquan Inlet
White Ibis Lighthouse Center
American Bittern Great Bay Bvld. WMA
Black-crowned Night Heron Great Bay Bvld. WMA
Little Blue Heron Forsythe--Barnegat
Tricolored Heron Forsythe--Barnegat
Snowy Egret Forsythe--Barnegat
Great Egret Island Beach SP
Great Blue Heron Lake Shenandoah County Park
Brown Pelican Island Beach SP
Black Vulture 35 Sunset Rd
Turkey Vulture 35 Sunset Rd
Osprey Island Beach SP
Sharp-shinned Hawk Island Beach SP
Cooper's Hawk Crestwood Village
Northern Harrier Island Beach SP
Bald Eagle Whitesbog
Red-shouldered Hawk Whiting WMA
Red-tailed Hawk Manasquan River WMA
Belted Kingfisher Whiting WMA
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Cattus Island County Park
Red-headed Woodpecker Colliers Mills WMA
Red-bellied Woodpecker Whiting WMA
Downy Woodpecker Whiting WMA
Hairy Woodpecker Reeves Bogs
Northern Flicker Whiting WMA
Merlin Whitesbog
Peregrine Falcon Whitesbog
Eastern Phoebe Whiting WMA
White-eyed Vireo Manasquan River WMA
Blue-headed Vireo Great Bay Bvld. WMA
Blue Jay Whiting WMA
American Crow Whiting WMA
Fish Crow Lake Shenandoah County Park
Common Raven 35 Sunset Rd
Carolina Chickadee Whiting WMA
Tufted Titmouse Whiting WMA
Tree Swallow Cedar Bonnet Island
Barn Swallow Island Beach SP
Ruby-crowned Kinglet Bridge to Nowhere
Golden-crowned Kinglet Manasquan River WMA
White-breasted Nuthatch Whiting WMA
Red-breasted Nuthatch Whiting WMA
Brown Creeper Island Beach SP
Northern House Wren Manasquan River WMA
Winter Wren Island Beach SP
Carolina Wren 35 Sunset Rd
European Starling Lakewood
Gray Catbird Manasquan River WMA
Brown Thrasher Reeves Bogs
Northern Mockingbird Lakewood
Eastern Bluebird Whiting WMA
Hermit Thrush Island Beach SP
American Robin Whiting WMA
Cedar Waxwing Bridge to Nowhere
House Sparrow Crestwood Village
American Pipit Island Beach SP
House Finch Whiting WMA
American Goldfinch Whiting WMA
Chipping Sparrow Whiting WMA
Field Sparrow Cranberry Bogs
Dark-eyed Junco Bridge to Nowhere
White-crowned Sparrow Island Beach SP
White-throated Sparrow Cranberry Bogs
Nelson's Sparrow Cattus Island County Park
Saltmarsh Sparrow Cattus Island County Park
Savannah Sparrow Colliers Mills WMA
Song Sparrow Cranberry Bogs
Lincoln's Sparrow Island Beach SP
Swamp Sparrow Whiting WMA
Eastern Towhee Whiting WMA
Eastern Meadowlark Island Beach SP
Red-winged Blackbird Lake Shenandoah County Park
Common Grackle Lighthouse Center
Boat-tailed Grackle Great Bay Bvld. WMA
Black-and-white Warbler Lake Shenandoah County Park
Common Yellowthroat Manasquan River WMA
American Redstart Cranberry Bogs
Northern Parula Cranberry Bogs
Palm Warbler Island Beach SP
Pine Warbler Whiting WMA
Yellow-rumped Warbler Whiting WMA
Black-throated Green Warbler Reeves Bogs
Northern Cardinal 35 Sunset Rd
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