Colliers Mills | Emson Preserve 5/3--Spotted Sandpiper, Orchard Oriole, Blue Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting

Blue Grosbeak

I got my two target birds this morning plus two bonus birds. Of the four, only one was really a surprise and it was a disturbing example of my sketchy memory. 

At this time of year, Colliers Mills is a good place for grassland birds--it used to be better when the Grasshopper Sparrows nested there, but it's been years since they've been there--too many dogs, I suppose. But you can be fairly certain of finding Blue Grosbeaks in the fields along Success Road and today I found four of them--two in the fields and two by the police firing range.  

Orchard Oriole

Moving on from the firing range area, I was on the berm that forms the southern edge of Turnmill Pond, when I heard a garbled song and saw my first Orchard Oriole of the year, a first-year male, with a black throat and yellow chest. I didn't remember seeing Orchard Oriole at Colliers Mills. I thought it might be a patch bird. When I got home and checked my eBird records, I found it was not a patch bird. I'd seen it there before. Forty-one times before! Why do I even bother birding when the experience is obviously evanescent? I guess in the moment I enjoy it; I just don't recall it all that well. 

Solitary Sandpiper

From there I walked back to the pond that's fed by Borden's Mill Branch. There, I suspected, I would find a Spotted Sandpiper on the mud and eventually I did find one in stiff-winged flight, landing too far out to be photographed, unlike the more cooperative Solitary Sandpiper, closer in. I also heard, closer to Hawkin Road, in the usual spot by the mountain laurels, a Hooded Warbler and finally was able to see this striking bird. Previously, walking through the woods, I saw something new to me--an Ovenbird carrying nesting material. Pete used to say that Ovenbird was the most common nesting warbler in NJ. Judging from the singing birds all along my route, they're pretty ensconced in Colliers Mills. 

Ovenbird

I was still missing one target bird, but I was fairly confident I could rectify that with a five-minute drive to the Emson Preserve. There, in the tree line that runs up the driveway to the parking lot, I was able to see and hear two Indigo Buntings. If I can't find them at Colliers, Emson is my fallback spot. 

Now a digression regarding "indigo." To begin, I don't know why these birds have "indigo" as their modifier. If you look at the color I've used for Indigo Bunting, it is more a purple than the deep blue the bird actually is. In short, Indigo Buntings are not indigo. Which is find because, as a color, indigo is a problem.

In my former life in the printing biz, I had to deal with color a lot. I know color theory. (And believe me, it is really a theory, not a law.) Many of you, in grade school, learned that the colors of the rainbow were ROY G. BIV--red orange yellow green blue indigo violet. That's how Newton described the colors he saw when he separated white light with a prism. There's only one flaw. Indigo doesn't exist in the rainbow. Newton only put it in there because he thought the colors had to have symmetry with the musical notes--there are seven musical notes, thus there had to be seven colors. Genius. 

Let me show you why indigo doesn't exist, using a box of Crayolas. If you put ROY G. BIV on a wheel, you will see that RED & YELLOW yield ORANGE, YELLOW & BLUE yield GREEN, BLUE & RED yield VIOLET. There is no room for indigo on the color wheel. While I love the Indigo Bunting, I hate the name. Let's not even get into the fact that it isn't truly a bunting either!

The Colliers Mills list of 42 species.

Canada Goose  6
Mallard  6
Mourning Dove  2
Chimney Swift  1     Lake
Killdeer  3
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Laughing Gull  20     Flyover
Turkey Vulture  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  3
Eastern Wood-Pewee  4
Eastern Phoebe  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  5
White-eyed Vireo  3
Warbling Vireo  1
Red-eyed Vireo  3
Blue Jay  6
Tufted Titmouse  2
Barn Swallow  4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  3
Carolina Wren  2
Gray Catbird  10
Northern Mockingbird  1
Wood Thrush  3
American Robin  7
Chipping Sparrow  3
Field Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  1
Eastern Towhee  6
Orchard Oriole  1
Baltimore Oriole  1
Red-winged Blackbird  20
Brown-headed Cowbird  1
Ovenbird  10
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  7
Hooded Warbler  1    
Pine Warbler  3
Prairie Warbler  3
Blue Grosbeak  4

Colliers Mills | Emson Preserve 5/4--Warbling Vireo, Blue Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting

 On this ridiculously cold May morning (and to think that 2 days ago we had the air conditioning on), I went to Colliers Mills, determined to track down a few new birds there. Warbling Vireo I always associate with a big tree in the parking lot by the lake, but today, none were singing there. I had to walk about 200 feet to find one singing just at the corner where Success Road enters the fields. By walking a little path that goes off the road and leads to an abandoned pumphouse, I was able to get eyes on the bird, at the very top of a tree just coming into leaf, hard to see but not as hard as it will be in a week or so. Birds that like bare trees are so much easier to deal with. 

Then I walked the fields along Success. I just knew there would be a Blue Grosbeak there, and soon heard one. Then it became a matter of tracking it down which I finally did as it worked the trees that separate two fields. I found it about 100 yards past the gravel road that's perpendicular to Success, then followed it all the way back to the gravel road without ever getting an opportunity for a photo--again, leaves in the way. 

I crossed over to the fields around the police shooting range. In the stand of trees to the east I found, as I have been finding every time I go there this spring, a pair of Red-headed Woodpeckers. I've stopped going to the woods north of Success where I was finding them in the winter now that I know they're on my route, but I wonder if they've switched locations, or if there are more back in the other spot. 

Indigo Bunting, Emson Preserve

The woods below the berm are flooded and I found a Solitary Sandpiper working the edge of the water. I tried again to get around that big pond south of Turnmill, but the path is still under water and even with muck boots I didn't feel like making the slog. So, I walked up Hawkin and cut through the woods to Forty Acre Pond where I found a couple of Killdeer, another Solitary, and 3 Least Sandpipers, unusual for this spot. Standing there, scanning the mudflats, I heard behind me a Hooded Warbler, so I didn't feel like I had to go to my usual mountain laurel spot to hear if one was singing there. I'm not doing a breeding bird survey. 

In all I had 44 species for area, but there was still one bird I wanted. I was hoping I'd have found it in the fields where the Blue Grosbeak was, but instead, I drove to the Emson Preserve, about 5 minutes away. I don't know why, but finding Indigo Bunting there is pretty easy this time of year and I was hardly out of the car before I had one, then two, and eventually three singing birds. As you can see, getting a picture was another story entirely. I added 3 other species in the 20 minutes I stood there and then I figured four and half hours in the cold and damp was enough. 

Species              Location
Canada Goose   Colliers Mills WMA
Mallard   Colliers Mills WMA
Mourning Dove   Colliers Mills WMA
Killdeer   Colliers Mills WMA
Solitary Sandpiper   Colliers Mills WMA
Least Sandpiper   Colliers Mills WMA
Laughing Gull   Colliers Mills WMA
Turkey Vulture   Colliers Mills WMA
Red-headed Woodpecker   Colliers Mills WMA
Red-bellied Woodpecker   Colliers Mills WMA
Northern Flicker   Ephraim P. Emson Preserve
Eastern Phoebe   Colliers Mills WMA
Great Crested Flycatcher   Colliers Mills WMA
Eastern Kingbird   Colliers Mills WMA
White-eyed Vireo   Colliers Mills WMA
Warbling Vireo   Colliers Mills WMA
Blue Jay   Colliers Mills WMA
Fish Crow   Colliers Mills WMA
Common Raven   Colliers Mills WMA
Carolina Chickadee   Colliers Mills WMA
Tufted Titmouse   Colliers Mills WMA
Tree Swallow   Colliers Mills WMA
Barn Swallow   Colliers Mills WMA
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher   Colliers Mills WMA
Carolina Wren   Colliers Mills WMA
European Starling   Colliers Mills WMA
Gray Catbird   Colliers Mills WMA
Northern Mockingbird   Colliers Mills WMA
Eastern Bluebird   Ephraim P. Emson Preserve
American Robin   Colliers Mills WMA
Chipping Sparrow   Colliers Mills WMA
Field Sparrow   Colliers Mills WMA
Song Sparrow   Colliers Mills WMA
Eastern Towhee   Colliers Mills WMA
Baltimore Oriole   Colliers Mills WMA
Red-winged Blackbird   Colliers Mills WMA
Brown-headed Cowbird   Colliers Mills WMA
Ovenbird   Colliers Mills WMA
Black-and-white Warbler   Colliers Mills WMA
Common Yellowthroat   Colliers Mills WMA
Hooded Warbler   Colliers Mills WMA
Northern Parula   Ephraim P. Emson Preserve
Yellow Warbler   Colliers Mills WMA
Pine Warbler   Colliers Mills WMA
Prairie Warbler   Colliers Mills WMA
Northern Cardinal   Colliers Mills WMA
Blue Grosbeak   Colliers Mills WMA
Indigo Bunting   Ephraim P. Emson Preserve

Jumping Brook Preserve | Emson Preserve 5/6--Chimney Swift, Orchard Oriole, Indigo Bunting

Orchard Oriole

Not enough rain to keep me indoors, but just enough drizzle to be a nuisance was the story this morning as I walked around Jumping Brook Preserve in New Egypt where I have been having a lot of luck of late. The drained bogs draw me even though the unmown dikes terrify me as tick habitat. Jumping Brook is only 5+ miles due north of Whitesbog as the shorebird flies, so when August rolls around this year, I am going to tear myself away from the drawn-down bogs in Burlco and search for the rarities we get there at Jumping Brook, in Ocean County. I will be heavily coated in permethrin when I do. 

Today I added a couple of more shorebirds to the Preserve's list--Least Sandpiper and Solitary Sandpiper had never been recorded there, but that is almost meaningless since, compared to nearby spots like Colliers Mills or the New Egypt cattle pastures, it is rarely birded

As I was walking toward those bogs, I saw my first Chimney Swifts of the year scything through the lowering sky and along the path I came across my first Orchard Orioles of the year too. And, while I was scanning the swallows and swifts over the bogs, I saw, for the second time this year, a Sandhill Crane flying toward Joint Base MDL. There must be some out-of-the-way area on the base where the cranes are hanging out. 

The rain came in dribs and drabs and after a couple of hours I was back at the car with an idea. I drove over to the Emson Preserve with another year bird in mind. I know that the long driveway there is good habitat for Indigo Bunting, with a line of trees separating farm fields but my first walk up and down it didn't turn up any. I decided to walk in the woods which, don't seem to get the warblers you would expect in a hardwood forest. But I did come across a Palm Warbler, which is supposed to have already left the area, and an Eastern Phoebe, a species that suddenly seems to have gone "dark." By the time I had completed the loop it was raining pretty steadily. As soon as I got out of the woods, I heard a song that seemed like an Indigo Bunting's but I wanted to be sure. And I didn't want to just hear a beautiful bird and I didn't feel like standing in the rain searching, so I played it's song and immediately a male flew down to greet me, shivering it's wings in territorial excitement. Using playback is not something I usually do, but I think the bird will survive. 

Between the two spots I had 52 species, not bad for inland birding. 

Canada Goose
Mallard
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Least Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Herring Gull
Turkey Vulture
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
White-breasted Nuthatch
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Carolina Wren
European Starling
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
Wood Thrush
American Robin
American Goldfinch
White-throated Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Orchard Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Ovenbird
Black-and-white Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow Warbler
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting

Jumping Brook Preserve 4/7--Sandhill Crane

On a day so dreary and thick with mist that it felt like walking in an aquarium, I drove out to New Egypt to look around before the really bad weather hit. I figured I'd worked Colliers Mills to avian exhaustion of late, so instead I started at the longhorn farm on Brynmore Road. I thought perhaps with all the recent rain, the muddy fields might have an early, interesting sandpiper, but they had only the usual flocks of blackbirds, starlings, and, of course, cowbirds, along with, by my count, 42 Black Vultures, mostly standing like sentries among the cattle. 

My next idea was to go over to Jumping Brook Preserve, only 5 minutes away, but little known and thus, underbirded. This is probably because it is hard to find, accessible by an easement that runs along the lawn of a large house, and the easement sign is barely visible in the bushes. Jumping Brook is on Cranberry Canners Road, which, as the name indicates, used to have a cranberry cannery, the ruins of which are across from the easement. There is a sign at the Emson Preserve detailing the history of the canned cranberry which was, like many inventions (the telephone, calculus) hit upon almost simultaneously, the New Jersey woman developing her recipe at more or less the same time as a man in Massachusetts did. Eventually, this all became Ocean Spray. Her, as the signs says, "extensive holdings" from what I can garner, included the abandoned bogs now called Jumping Brook, which is hard up against the boundary of Ft. Dix, though around here, what isn't hard up the boundary of Joint Base MDL? 

The property has an on again off again history of maintenance--I've been there when the beavers have made the trails almost impassable--but right now the NJCF seems to be doing a good job of keeping the trails around the bogs mowed. I even noticed, today, that some of the dams along the drained bogs toward the back are walkable. Those drained bogs were my target, with sandpipers in mind again, and while I didn't find anything new, I did find at least 5 Wilson's Snipe flying around along with a Killdeer and a Greater Yellowlegs. I was hoping for Blue-winged Teal but didn't come up with any--the only waterfowl being geese, Mallards, and Wood Ducks. There's often a large contingent of Ring-necked Ducks in a back reservoir, but they seem to have left. 

But the most notable sight came when I was three-quarters of the way around the "main" bogs. I saw a huge bird flying toward me and knew immediately by size and flight style that it wasn't a Great Blue Heron. Putting up my binoculars I was able to follow its flight for enough time to note it's overall gray color and long, extended neck with a relatively small head, all of which builds a Sandhill Crane. That makes up for the one I missed last month at Whitesbog, which was also flying toward Ft. Dix, so, note to Joint Base birders (and there are a lot of them), there are cranes somewhere near you. 

Of course, Sandhill Crane is flagged as "rare", but it is also flagged "infrequent." Gone are the days when they were somewhat easy to find in the corn stubble next to the longhorn fields. They seem to hopscotch between the counties, sometimes showing up at the Pemberton MUA fields, sometimes reported flying over New Egypt. Their mysterious disappearance may be because they are in a restricted access area. 

I got out of there just before the weather went from drizzle to big fat raindrops.

22 species
Canada Goose  4
Wood Duck  4
Mallard  5
Sandhill Crane  1     
Killdeer  1
Wilson's Snipe  5
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Black Vulture  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  1
Eastern Phoebe  2
Blue Jay  3
Carolina Chickadee  1
Tree Swallow  50
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
White-throated Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  3
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  1
Northern Cardinal  1     

🠜Chimney of old cannery.

I think Black Vultures nest there.

Colliers Mills | Emson Preserve 5/3--Baltimore Oriole, Northern Parula, Magnolia Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Indigo Bunting

Indigo Bunting, Emson Preserve

It seems to be a birding law that applies only to me: Migration happens elsewhere. I arrived early today at Colliers Mills and while the place was birdy, it wasn't very new birdy. I only added Magnolia Warbler to my year list and that was early on in the walk. Not only was the section of the road where I usually hear Prairie Warblers devoid of them, but I found a swastika painted in purple on a tree. Why anyone would go that far into the woods to be an idiot beggars my comprehension. 

Red-headed Woodpecker, Colliers Mills

I was crossing the fields on Success Road, figuring to go look for the Red-headed Woodpeckers in the woods to the north; maybe that would cheer me up when I saw two of them on a utility pole.  So instead I walked up and around Colliers Mills Lake. On the way back I saw something odd up on a dead tree on the other side of the field I was walking along. Putting my binoculars up, I saw it was two Wood Ducks balancing precariously on the splinter that the broken top of the tree had become. Just as I raised my camera they realized they were ducks and flew off. 

I had a pretty big list but still only that Maggie as new when I got near the parking lot. Then I saw a little warbler action and two of them were a Northern Parula and a Black-throated Blue Warbler. Then, just as I was about to get in the car I heard a familiar song, looked up into a leafing tree behind the white storage building and saw my first Baltimore Oriole (avian division) of the year. So it seems I should have just hung around the parking lot if I wanted additions to the year list. 

The nearby Emson Preserve was my next stop. I only intended to walk the entrance road. While the hardwood forest there looks like it should entice warblers, there haven't been many recorded so far, while I've always found the road itself to be very busy. I walked up and down finding mostly White-throated Sparrows. I had a notion of the bird that should be there but it wasn't until again, I was just about to leave that I looked up and found my FOY Indigo Bunting. The light was terrible, but the bird was beautiful, take my word for it, 'cause the photo sure don't show it.

My long walk around Colliers Mills garnered 49 species; Emson added Purple Martin, Tree Swallow, American Goldfinch & House Wren in addition to the bunting. The Colliers list: 

Canada Goose  15

Wood Duck  2    

Mourning Dove  3     Heard

Killdeer  1     Heard

Laughing Gull  2     Heard flyover

Great Blue Heron  1

Turkey Vulture  3

Bald Eagle  1

Red-headed Woodpecker  2

Red-bellied Woodpecker  5

Hairy Woodpecker  1     Hawkin Rd

Northern Flicker  3

American Kestrel  1

Eastern Phoebe  1     Heard

Great Crested Flycatcher  5

White-eyed Vireo  3     Heard

Warbling Vireo  1     Heard

Blue Jay  7

Fish Crow  4

Carolina Chickadee  5

Tufted Titmouse  1     Heard

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  3

Barn Swallow  4

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  4

Carolina Wren  1     Heard

European Starling  3

Gray Catbird  28

Brown Thrasher  5     5+

Eastern Bluebird  4

American Robin  11

Chipping Sparrow  6

Field Sparrow  2

White-throated Sparrow  12

Eastern Towhee  4

Baltimore Oriole  1

Red-winged Blackbird  15

Brown-headed Cowbird  10

Ovenbird  15     Heard

Black-and-white Warbler  1

Common Yellowthroat  10

Northern Parula  1

Magnolia Warbler  1

Black-throated Blue Warbler  1

Palm Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler  7

Prairie Warbler  1     Heard berm

Northern Cardinal  6

Blue Grosbeak  1

Baltimore Oriole, Colliers Mills

May Birding Social Distancing Edition

Brig Wildlife Drive

I don't really mind birding by my lonesome but trying to stay away from others does constrain me from chasing rare birds since everyone else is going to be chasing those birds too. There was a really interesting sea bird event this month that I opted out of--mostly because I hate seawatching, but also because I feared the crowds. And there is nothing more frustrating than hearing someone has the rarity in his scope and you can't find it and now you can't even share his scope.

Jen's Trail at Brig

I seem to gravitate to the same spots--Whitesbog, Colliers Mills, Manahawkin, Great Bay Blvd, with dollops of Manasquan River WMA and Double Trouble thrown in. All of them have the walking advantage. I don't enjoy standing in one place waiting for birds to fly by or appear at a feeder and I don't like driving along roads looking and listening. Yeah, you can get a lot of birds that way, but not every day is the World Series of Birding. Which, this year, was a virtual WSB that I participated in by going to Whitesbog and recording birds in my backyard. 

I stayed away from Island Beach SP to the detriment of my warbler list--again, places like Reed's Road are too popular. June is historically the start of the summer doldrums which are broken up by the appearance of rarities but see the first paragraph. The best solution--find my own rarities which is a rare event but it does happen. 

For the month I had 144 species of which 44 were year birds and a few of which were rarities. 

Counties birded: Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean

Species   First Sighting

Brant   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Canada Goose   Meadow View Ln

Mute Swan   Holly Lake

Wood Duck   Whitesbog

Mallard   Meadow View Ln

American Black Duck   Whitesbog

Bufflehead   Brig

Red-breasted Merganser   Reeves Bogs

Wild Turkey   35 Sunset Rd

Mourning Dove   Meadow View Ln

Yellow-billed Cuckoo   Manasquan River WMA

Black-billed Cuckoo   Colliers Mills WMA

Eastern Whip-poor-will   35 Sunset Rd

Chimney Swift   Manasquan River WMA

Ruby-throated Hummingbird   35 Sunset Rd

Clapper Rail   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Virginia Rail   Reeves Bogs

Black-necked Stilt   Brig

American Oystercatcher   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Black-bellied Plover   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Semipalmated Plover   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Killdeer   Meadow View Ln

Ruddy Turnstone   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Red Knot   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Dunlin   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Least Sandpiper   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

White-rumped Sandpiper   Brig

Semipalmated Sandpiper   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Short-billed Dowitcher   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Spotted Sandpiper   Whitesbog

Solitary Sandpiper   Reeves Bogs

Greater Yellowlegs   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Willet   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Lesser Yellowlegs   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Laughing Gull   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Herring Gull   Huber Prairie Warbler Preserve

Great Black-backed Gull   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Least Tern   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Gull-billed Tern   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Caspian Tern   Double Trouble State Park

Common Tern   Brig

Forster's Tern   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Black Skimmer   Brig

Common Loon   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Double-crested Cormorant   Meadow View Ln

Great Blue Heron   Meadow View Ln

Great Egret   Double Trouble State Park

Snowy Egret   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Little Blue Heron   Forsythe--Barnegat

Tricolored Heron   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Green Heron   Whitesbog

Black-crowned Night-Heron   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Glossy Ibis   Bunker Hill Bogs

Black Vulture   Manasquan River WMA

Turkey Vulture   Huber Prairie Warbler Preserve

Osprey   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Cooper's Hawk   Meadow View Ln

Bald Eagle   Whitesbog

Red-shouldered Hawk   Reeves Bogs

Red-tailed Hawk   Whitesbog

Great Horned Owl   Whitesbog

Belted Kingfisher   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Red-headed Woodpecker   South Park Rd

Red-bellied Woodpecker   Meadow View Ln

Downy Woodpecker   35 Sunset Rd

Hairy Woodpecker   Whitesbog

Northern Flicker   Meadow View Ln

Eastern Wood-Pewee   South Park Rd

Acadian Flycatcher   Brig

Alder Flycatcher   Manahawkin WMA

Willow Flycatcher   35 Sunset Rd

Eastern Phoebe   Meadow View Ln

Great Crested Flycatcher   Meadow View Ln

Eastern Kingbird   Whitesbog

White-eyed Vireo   Meadow View Ln

Yellow-throated Vireo   Colliers Mills WMA

Blue-headed Vireo   Meadow View Ln

Warbling Vireo   Colliers Mills WMA

Red-eyed Vireo   Huber Prairie Warbler Preserve

Blue Jay   Meadow View Ln

American Crow   Meadow View Ln

Fish Crow   Meadow View Ln

Carolina Chickadee   Meadow View Ln

Tufted Titmouse   Meadow View Ln

Northern Rough-winged Swallow   Whitesbog

Purple Martin   Colliers Mills WMA

Tree Swallow   Meadow View Ln

Barn Swallow   Whitesbog

White-breasted Nuthatch   35 Sunset Rd

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher   Meadow View Ln

House Wren   Forest Resource Education Center

Marsh Wren   Manahawkin WMA

Carolina Wren   35 Sunset Rd

European Starling   35 Sunset Rd

Gray Catbird   Meadow View Ln

Brown Thrasher   Meadow View Ln

Northern Mockingbird   Meadow View Ln

Eastern Bluebird   Double Trouble State Park

Wood Thrush   Meadow View Ln

American Robin   35 Sunset Rd

Cedar Waxwing   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

House Sparrow   Subaru

House Finch   Meadow View Ln

American Goldfinch   35 Sunset Rd

Chipping Sparrow   Meadow View Ln

Field Sparrow   Meadow View Ln

White-crowned Sparrow   Whitesbog

White-throated Sparrow   Meadow View Ln

Seaside Sparrow   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Saltmarsh Sparrow   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Savannah Sparrow   Whitesbog

Song Sparrow   35 Sunset Rd

Swamp Sparrow   Whitesbog

Eastern Towhee   Meadow View Ln

Orchard Oriole   Whitesbog

Baltimore Oriole   Whitesbog

Red-winged Blackbird   Meadow View Ln

Brown-headed Cowbird   Meadow View Ln

Common Grackle   Meadow View Ln

Boat-tailed Grackle   Great Bay Bvld. WMA

Ovenbird   Meadow View Ln

Worm-eating Warbler   South Park Rd

Blue-winged Warbler   Manasquan River WMA

Black-and-white Warbler   Meadow View Ln

Prothonotary Warbler   Bunker Hill Bogs

Common Yellowthroat   Meadow View Ln

Hooded Warbler   Huber Prairie Warbler Preserve

American Redstart   Reeves Bogs

Northern Parula   Colliers Mills WMA

Magnolia Warbler   Double Trouble State Park

Yellow Warbler   Whitesbog

Blackpoll Warbler   Reeves Bogs

Black-throated Blue Warbler   Whitesbog

Palm Warbler   Meadow View Ln

Pine Warbler   Meadow View Ln

Yellow-rumped Warbler   Meadow View Ln

Prairie Warbler   Huber Prairie Warbler Preserve

Black-throated Green Warbler   Bunker Hill Bogs

Scarlet Tanager   Ephraim P. Emson Preserve

Northern Cardinal   Meadow View Ln

Rose-breasted Grosbeak   35 Sunset Rd

Blue Grosbeak   Ephraim P. Emson Preserve

Indigo Bunting   Manasquan River WMA Turkey up a tree in our backyard