Lake Barnegat 1/3--Long-billed Dowitchers

About a month ago, one of my "stumble-upon" birds was a flock of Long-billed Dowitchers in the mudflats of partially drained Lake Barnegat in Lacey. They can now be described as the "long-staying" Long-billed Dowitchers, because they are still there. Out of all the rarities that are popping up on my alerts, they seemed like the easiest ones to get for the year and besides, I have a sort of proprietary interest in them. I even got a text New Year's Day from a birder who lives nearby there to tell me that "my" dowitchers were still present. 

So, after a couple of very long days of birding, I figured I'd take it easy and just hit a few spots in that area and see what I could add. I started out at Bamber Lake because that's a reliable spot for Tundra Swans--except for today when the lake was completely devoid of any waterfowl. An inauspicious start to the day.  Deer Head Lake, a bit west of Lake Barnegat, had lots of Canada Geese and I'm not that obsessive that I felt I had to make a list or count them. 

Finally, at Lake Barnegat a quick scan of the mud turned up the flock of dowitchers, mixed in with an eBird filter-busting number of Greater Yellowlegs and one Killdeer, the other new species for the year. I scoped from 3 different vantage points on the lake, but no matter where I stood, the dowitchers were still distant. One lousy digiscope was all I could manage. 

I made a couple of other stops: Bay Parkway in Waretown, where I added a few birds to the Ocean County list, and Eno's Pond where this winter's dearth of passerines continues. But one cool species for the day was enough for me and then it started to rain. 

October Review--Sparse

Royal Tern, Double-crested Cormorant, Cattle Egret, Herring Gull, IBSP Marina

A lot of birding this month, but not much new, though, compared to the pandemic constrained birding of 2020, I've already surpassed my numbers for the year overall and for Ocean County. We started the month with the last two days of our Delaware vacation (although what I'm taking a vacation from is mysterious), and it was there that we picked up two year birds, an Hudsonian Godwit at Bombay Hook and a Brown-headed Nuthatch at Cape Henlopen SP which we visited for the first time. 

After that my trips consisted of a combination of my usual haunts (Whitesbog, Reeves Bogs, Brig, Great Bay Blvd) and spots more lightly birded such as FREC, Bunker Hill Bogs, Bamber Lake & Horicon Lake, where I hoped something unusual would go overlooked had I not birded there that day. Nope. I only was able to find two new year birds the rest of the month: a Gray-cheeked Thrush way in the back at Reeves Bogs and a very brief look at a Clay-colored Sparrow at Island Beach on one of Scott's NJA trips. 

Rusty Blackbird, Reeves Bogs

The month was not without its rewards though. At Great Bay Blvd I was able to add American Golden-Plover to my county year list, giving me, as Scott pointed out, all three pluvialis species that showed up in the county this year (Black-bellied, American Golden and Pacific Golden) in one place. At Reeves Bogs last week I came upon and was able to photograph a very nice example of a Rusty Blackbird; not rare, but sought after as they are rapidly diminishing. There is one stretch of trail there that runs along a maple swamp where they are fairly reliable in the right season and last week the main satisfaction I had was hearing it first and then tracking down the bird. 

But probably the most interesting bird of the month I saw today. I went to Island Beach today to walk the southern end of the park to the jetty and then the back of the inlet, hoping for some interesting seabirds (say a jaeger) or shorebirds (say a Red Knot) or gulls (say an Iceland). Nope. Had I stopped at Reed's Road there was the very slight off chance that I might have seen the White-winged Dove that flew over Scott's head, but I didn't stop there. When I was just about back to the car returning from the inlet, I got a text from Steve that there was a Cattle Egret at the IBSP Marina--8 miles away. That seemed like an unusual place for one to be and while it wouldn't be a year county bird, it would certainly be an interesting addition to my Island Beach list. Then I got a follow up text that there were five Cattle Egrets. That's just down right weird. But, after I got there (if you don't strictly follow the speed limits you can do it in 11 minutes) there they were, standing on one of the docks with the gulls, cormorants, and Royal Terns. Later, I took a short walk up the alley that runs between the houses and the park boundary and when I was coming back I thought I saw a white plastic bag flying around in the farmer's market field. The white fluttering turned out to be one of the Cattle Egrets and then, when I got out into the open, all five of them took off, circled the field a few times and disappeared. They were later found about a half mile north of there. A satisfying end to the month in which I listed 146 species. 

Counties birded:

Delaware: Kent, Sussex

New Jersey: Atlantic, Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean

Species               First Sighting
Snow Goose   Bombay Hook
Brant   Island Beach SP
Canada Goose   Dover
Mute Swan   Bombay Hook
Wood Duck   Reeves Bogs
Blue-winged Teal   Bombay Hook
Northern Shoveler   Bombay Hook
Gadwall   Bridge to Nowhere
American Wigeon   Bombay Hook
Mallard   Bombay Hook
American Black Duck   Bombay Hook
Northern Pintail   Bombay Hook
Green-winged Teal   Bombay Hook
Ring-necked Duck   Butterfly Bogs
Lesser Scaup   Holly Lake
Common Eider   Island Beach SP
Surf Scoter   Barnegat Lighthouse SP
White-winged Scoter   Manasquan Inlet
Black Scoter   Island Beach SP
Bufflehead   Bayview Ave Park
Hooded Merganser   Lake Shenandoah County Park
Red-breasted Merganser   Island Beach SP
Ruddy Duck   Lake of the Lilies
Wild Turkey   Bombay Hook
Pied-billed Grebe   Bombay Hook
Rock Pigeon   Milton
Mourning Dove   Cape Henlopen State Park
Yellow-billed Cuckoo   Island Beach SP
Chimney Swift   Whitesbog
Clapper Rail   Bombay Hook
Sora   Bombay Hook
American Coot   Lake of the Lilies
American Avocet   Bombay Hook
American Oystercatcher   Great Bay Blvd
Black-bellied Plover   Bombay Hook
American Golden-Plover   Great Bay Blvd
Semipalmated Plover   Whitehall Crossroads
Killdeer   Whitesbog
Hudsonian Godwit   Bombay Hook
Ruddy Turnstone   Great Bay Blvd
Sanderling   Island Beach SP
Dunlin   Bombay Hook
White-rumped Sandpiper   Great Bay Blvd
Semipalmated Sandpiper   Bombay Hook
Western Sandpiper   Brig
Short-billed Dowitcher   Bombay Hook
Long-billed Dowitcher   Brig
Greater Yellowlegs   Bombay Hook
Lesser Yellowlegs   Bombay Hook
Laughing Gull   Cape Henlopen State Park
Ring-billed Gull   Manahawkin Lake
Herring Gull   Cape Henlopen State Park
Lesser Black-backed Gull   Island Beach SP
Great Black-backed Gull   Cape Henlopen State Park
Caspian Tern   Bombay Hook
Forster's Tern   Prime Hook
Royal Tern   Cape Henlopen State Park
Common Loon   Cedar Bonnet Island
Northern Gannet   Island Beach SP
Double-crested Cormorant   Cape Henlopen State Park
Brown Pelican   Cape Henlopen State Park
Great Blue Heron   Prime Hook
Great Egret   Bombay Hook
Snowy Egret   Bombay Hook
Little Blue Heron   Cedar Bonnet Island
Tricolored Heron   Bombay Hook
Cattle Egret   IBSP Marina
Black-crowned Night-Heron   Island Beach SP
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron   Great Bay Blvd
Roseate Spoonbill   Bombay Hook
Black Vulture   Cape Henlopen State Park
Turkey Vulture   N Dupont Hwy, Dover
Osprey   Prime Hook
Northern Harrier   Bombay Hook
Sharp-shinned Hawk   Cape Henlopen State Park
Cooper's Hawk   Colliers Mills WMA
Bald Eagle   Bombay Hook
Red-tailed Hawk   Colliers Mills WMA
Belted Kingfisher   Whitesbog
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker   Cape Henlopen State Park
Red-bellied Woodpecker   Dover
Downy Woodpecker   Cape Henlopen State Park
Hairy Woodpecker   Reeves Bogs
Northern Flicker   Dover
American Kestrel   Colliers Mills WMA
Merlin   Reeves Bogs
Peregrine Falcon   Island Beach SP
Eastern Phoebe   Cape Henlopen State Park
Blue-headed Vireo   Island Beach SP
Red-eyed Vireo   Cape Henlopen State Park
Blue Jay   Dover
American Crow   Dover
Fish Crow   Point Pleasant
Common Raven   Whitesbog
Carolina Chickadee   Dover
Tufted Titmouse   Dover
Tree Swallow   Bombay Hook
Bank Swallow   Brig
Ruby-crowned Kinglet   Cape Henlopen State Park
Golden-crowned Kinglet   Cape Henlopen State Park
Red-breasted Nuthatch   Island Beach SP
White-breasted Nuthatch   Reeves Bogs
Brown-headed Nuthatch   Cape Henlopen State Park
Brown Creeper   South Park Rd
Winter Wren   Island Beach SP
Marsh Wren   Brig
Carolina Wren   Dover
European Starling   Dover
Gray Catbird   Cape Henlopen State Park
Brown Thrasher   Whitesbog
Northern Mockingbird   Dover
Eastern Bluebird   Cape Henlopen State Park
Gray-cheeked Thrush   Reeves Bogs
Hermit Thrush   Island Beach SP
American Robin   Cape Henlopen State Park
Cedar Waxwing   Island Beach SP
House Sparrow   Wawa Dover
House Finch   35 Sunset Rd
American Goldfinch   Bombay Hook
Chipping Sparrow   Cape Henlopen State Park
Clay-colored Sparrow   Island Beach SP
Field Sparrow   Colliers Mills WMA
Dark-eyed Junco   Island Beach SP
White-crowned Sparrow   Island Beach SP
White-throated Sparrow   Island Beach SP
Saltmarsh Sparrow   Great Bay Blvd
Savannah Sparrow   Bombay Hook
Song Sparrow   Reeves Bogs
Swamp Sparrow   Reeves Bogs
Eastern Towhee   Bombay Hook
Eastern Meadowlark   Great Bay Blvd
Red-winged Blackbird   Bombay Hook
Brown-headed Cowbird   Cedar Bonnet Island
Rusty Blackbird   Reeves Bogs
Common Grackle   Island Beach SP
Boat-tailed Grackle   Island Beach SP
Northern Waterthrush   Island Beach SP
Black-and-white Warbler   Cape Henlopen State Park
Common Yellowthroat   Reeves Bogs
American Redstart   Island Beach SP
Northern Parula   Island Beach SP
Blackpoll Warbler   Island Beach SP
Black-throated Blue Warbler   Island Beach SP
Palm Warbler   35 Sunset Rd
Pine Warbler   Cape Henlopen State Park
Yellow-rumped Warbler   Reeves Bogs
Northern Cardinal   Dover
Indigo Bunting   Colliers Mills WMA

Island Beach SP 1/2--Common Redpoll

With a long Kick Off the Year day behind me and potentially long one tomorrow (Barnegat CBC), I didn't intend to spend the entire day chasing around. Plus, I had some life administrative duties to take care of. The easiest and most desirable bird around was being seen at the entrance of Island Beach SP, so after I took care of what I had to do, I drove over there.

Stake outs, as I have said before, are not my favorite way of birding. You stand around and wait and hope that you don't have to listen to too many stupid conversations. When I arrived, there were three photographers aiming their cameras at the base of the feeder and I thought I was going to get real lucky, but it was only a flock of House Sparrows. Which promptly flew away when a car pulled up to the toll booth. And stayed away, as more cars lined up. My patience was out after 15 minutes, so I decided to look around to see where the sparrows went and maybe find my bird. That didn't work as the sparrows were nowhere to be found. 

I was thinking about leaving when a few birders showed up. Hard to tell who's who in masks, but we eventually recognized each other. I decided to make one more loop around the entrance island and stand by the feeder for a little while longer. A cardinal flew in. Perhaps he was a harbinger. Then, after a few minutes we all a loud "Zeep" and blur went into the cedar next to the tree. The zeep was the call of a Common Redpoll. But I didn't want to count a call for this bird. According to everyone else, the bird had flown into the base of the cedar tree. I peered in with my binoculars and saw White-throated Sparrow. A little to left, another White-throated Sparrow. And a little more to the left...a Common Redpoll! I got lucky again, just as I had last week with the Bullock's Oriole. 

I was ready to leave, figuring I'd never get a picture with the bird in the dense branches of the tree but just as I was turning on my heel, the redpoll came out and perched on a branch. Four or five of us stealthily crept up but we probably could have had a marching band because the bird wanted seed and a line of cars and a bunch of cameras weren't going to deter it. I crouched down and leaned against the side of the toll both and the bird was barely socially distanced from me. Took my photos and left. 

Other cool birds I saw for the day were: Tundra Swans on Bamber Lake; a long-staying Ring-necked Duck on the pond on Schoolhouse Road; Lesser Scaup at Riverfront Landing; Hooded Mergansers, a Great Blue Heron, and a Belted Kingfisher on a pond in Village VI; and a Bald Eagle flying over the house. In all, not a bad second day. 

Bamber Lake 1/2--Common Goldeneye

Common Goldeneye, hen

Because the sound of a vacuum cleaner sends me into fits, I didn't want to be home during our fortnightly house-cleaning, so, reading that a Common Goldeneye had been spotted at nearby Bamber Lake, I drove down there. Goldeneyes are not rarities, but they are hardly common on the lakes and ponds around here. Usually, I have to stop off at one of two spots in Harvey Cedars on Long Beach Island to find them and usually it is cold and windy and I'm tired from walking the beach at Barnegat Light, so getting one on the list early and so close to home made me happy. I also figured I'd get some other waterfowl on the county list, but aside from a couple of Tundra Swans (there is usually a flock here), two Buffleheads, and a pair of Pied-billed Grebes, the lake was a watery bird desert. Not even Canada Geese were on it. 

It's been a slow start for the county list--I'm up to 25. I took my walk in the Whiting WMA this morning because the car was in the shop. The only bird back there that isn't an expected denizen of our backyard was Golden-crowned Kinglet. Golden. I detect a theme for the day. 

February Review--15 Year Birds

Savannah Sparrow (Ipswich ssp), Barnegat Light SP, with bling

Birding as a hobby: I go out and I walk around and I look for birds. I enjoy the birds for themselves--I watch crows mob first a Red-tailed Hawk, then a Northern Harrier at Manasquan River WMA; or I notice the bands on an Ipswich Savannah Sparrow; or I just admire how clean and crisp the Herring Gulls suddenly look as spring get closer.

Birding as a game: How many birds can I see today? This month? This year? In this county? In that county? Am I wasting my time in that county when I could be building up my list in this county?

This month it seemed like I alternated the hobby with the game every other day, although the game is always being played at some level. It is most satisfying when the hobby finds a bird I "need" for the game. The least satisfying is when I deliberately go looking for one bird for the game...and don't find it. Those are the times I have to remind myself, forcefully, that it's just a game, it is just a bird.

Northern Saw-whet Owl

With all that said, it was a pretty good month for the hobby and the game. Birds I wasn't expecting turned up, like the Barred Owl Mike and I heard at Eno's Pond on Sunday in the middle of the afternoon. We were just looking around there (hobby) and heard "Who cooks for you!" three times, adding the bird to our state and county lists (game). And it was a pretty good month for owls with a count of 4 species for the month: Barred, Saw-whet, Long-eared, Short-eared. Now, if we could only figure out where there's a Barn Owl in the state (hobby), preferably in Ocean County (game).

Now for some arithmetic: the 15 birds I added to my year list bring me up to 151 in two months. That's half of what I hope to see in NJ for the year. For the remaining 10 months of the year I will have to average 15 new birds a month--that should be easy in April and May during warbler migration and maybe in August during shorebird migration, but difficult the rest of the year, especially since I don't do pelagics so all the birds I see will be from land. That means I better enjoy the hobby because the game gets much more challenging hereon in.

Counties birded: Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Warren
127 species:

Species            First Sighting

Snow Goose   Brig

Ross's Goose   Cream Ridge

Greater White-fronted Goose   Conine’s Millpond

Brant   Manasquan Inlet

Cackling Goose   Etra Lake

Canada Goose   Bamber Lake

Mute Swan   Waretown

Trumpeter Swan   Stone Tavern Lake

Tundra Swan   Bamber Lake

Muscovy Duck   Fletcher Lake

Wood Duck   Little Silver Lake

Northern Shoveler   Lake Takanassee

Gadwall   Lake Takanassee

Eurasian Wigeon   Fletcher Lake

American Wigeon   Lake Takanassee

Mallard   Marshall's Pond

American Black Duck   Barnegat Beach

Northern Pintail   Forsythe-Barnegat

Green-winged Teal   Brig

Canvasback   Riverfront Landing

Redhead   Lake Takanassee

Ring-necked Duck   Marshall's Pond

Greater Scaup   Waretown

Lesser Scaup   Lake Takanassee

Common Eider   Barnegat Lighthouse SP

Harlequin Duck   Barnegat Lighthouse SP

Surf Scoter   Point Pleasant Beach

White-winged Scoter   Sunset Beach/Concrete Ship

Black Scoter   Manasquan Inlet

Long-tailed Duck   Waretown

Bufflehead   Waretown

Common Goldeneye   Cloverdale Farm

Hooded Merganser   Bamber Lake

Common Merganser   Marshall's Pond

Red-breasted Merganser   Waretown

Ruddy Duck   Riverfront Landing

Wild Turkey   New Egypt

Pied-billed Grebe   Lake Takanassee

Horned Grebe   Barnegat Municipal Dock

Rock Pigeon   New Egypt

Mourning Dove   Waretown

American Coot   Lake of the Lilies

American Oystercatcher   Brigantine Island

Killdeer   Cape May Point SP

Ruddy Turnstone   Barnegat Lighthouse SP

Sanderling   Manasquan Inlet

Dunlin   Manasquan Inlet

Purple Sandpiper   Manasquan Inlet

American Woodcock   Crestwood Village

Greater Yellowlegs   Eno’s Pond

Bonaparte's Gull   Cape May-Lewes Ferry Terminal

Ring-billed Gull   Waretown

Herring Gull   Bamber Lake

Iceland Gull   Edison Boat Launch

Lesser Black-backed Gull   Lake Takanassee

Great Black-backed Gull   Waretown

Red-throated Loon   Brigantine Island

Pacific Loon   Manasquan Inlet

Common Loon   Manasquan Inlet

Northern Gannet   Sunset Beach/Concrete Ship

Great Cormorant   Sayreville Marsh

Double-crested Cormorant   Riverfront Landing

Great Blue Heron   Cloverdale Farm

Black-crowned Night-Heron   Brig

Black Vulture   Pinehurst Rd

Turkey Vulture   Pinehurst Rd

Northern Harrier   Barnegat Municipal Dock

Sharp-shinned Hawk   Lake Takanassee

Cooper's Hawk   Colliers Mills WMA

Bald Eagle   Waretown

Red-shouldered Hawk   Cape May Point SP

Red-tailed Hawk   New Egypt

Rough-legged Hawk   BC Fairgrounds

Barred Owl   Eno’s Pond

Long-eared Owl   Assunpink WMA

Short-eared Owl   Pole Farm

Northern Saw-whet Owl   Pole Farm

Belted Kingfisher   Cattus Island County Park

Red-bellied Woodpecker   Poplar St Boat Ramp

Downy Woodpecker   Collinstown Rd

Hairy Woodpecker   New Egypt

Pileated Woodpecker   Assunpink WMA

Northern Flicker   New Egypt

American Kestrel   Plumsted

Merlin   Cranberry Bogs

Peregrine Falcon   Sayreville Marsh

Eastern Phoebe   Assunpink WMA

Blue Jay   Poplar St Boat Ramp

American Crow   35 Sunset Rd

Fish Crow   New Egypt

Common Raven   Cranberry Bogs

Carolina Chickadee   Poplar St Boat Ramp

Black-capped Chickadee   Merrill Creek Reservoir

Boreal Chickadee   Merrill Creek Reservoir

Tufted Titmouse   Collinstown Rd

Red-breasted Nuthatch   Collinstown Rd

White-breasted Nuthatch   Cloverdale Farm

Brown Creeper   Colliers Mills WMA

Carolina Wren   Collinstown Rd

Golden-crowned Kinglet   Brig

Eastern Bluebird   Cloverdale Farm

Hermit Thrush   Collinstown Rd

American Robin   Bamber Lake

Gray Catbird   Assunpink WMA

Northern Mockingbird   Collinstown Rd

European Starling   Barnegat Municipal Dock

House Finch   Collinstown Rd

Pine Siskin   Cloverdale Farm

American Goldfinch   Poplar St Boat Ramp

Chipping Sparrow   Manasquan River WMA

Field Sparrow   New Egypt

American Tree Sparrow   Shelter Cove Park

Fox Sparrow   Collinstown Rd

Dark-eyed Junco   Collinstown Rd

White-throated Sparrow   Poplar St Boat Ramp

Savannah Sparrow   Pole Farm

Song Sparrow   Poplar St Boat Ramp

Swamp Sparrow   Whitesbog

Eastern Meadowlark   Pole Farm

Red-winged Blackbird   Barnegat

Brown-headed Cowbird   New Egypt

Rusty Blackbird   Oros Wildlife Preserve

Common Grackle   New Egypt

Boat-tailed Grackle   Manasquan Inlet

Pine Warbler   Colliers Mills WMA

Yellow-rumped Warbler   Poplar St Boat Ramp

Northern Cardinal   Poplar St Boat Ramp

House Sparrow   Barnegat

Common Goldeneye, Cloverdale Farm

New Egypt 2/1--Field Sparrow

Field Sparrow, New Egypt
Photo: Mike Mandracchia

New month, new bird. Mike & I did one our county tours this morning, despite continuing frigid weather and unexpected (at least to me) light snow.

We started at Bamber Lake, where, even though it is 90% frozen, 52 Tundra Swans could still be found. They like resting on the ice. What they're eating I don't know. A couple of quick stops at spots on Sands Point showed us that finding waterfowl was going to be difficult because the bay, except for some very thin stretches of open water, has succumbed to the deep freeze.

A very cold walk along Collinstown Road in Barnegat was productive for the passerines--we had 5 Fox Sparrows, a couple of Hermit Thrushes, along with assorted nuthatches, chickadees, sparrows, finches and blackbirds. A couple of more looks at the bay in Barnegat still didn't yield any Ocean County grebes for us. A fairly quick visit to Cloverdale Farm (and its very welcome warm rest room) got us more feeder birds and our Eastern Bluebirds for the month.  We made an attempt to find a Winter Wren where the park ranger told us it had last been seen, but it was probably hunkered down deep in the reeds, keeping warm, birds being generally smarter than birders.

Our last major stop was up around the frozen mud and free range cattle of New Egypt where the sparrows were abundant and where we found my only year bird of the day, a Field Sparrow mixed in with the songs, white-throateds, and juncos.  Not a rare bird, by any means, but not an everyday bird either. No Sandhill Cranes in the stubble field (which isn't very stubbly this year) no Snow Geese, so the biggest birds we saw today were a flock of Wild Turkeys.

Finally, time was getting short as we had things to do, so we drove east along W Colliers Mills Road, because it's always been a good stretch for kestrels and sure enough I spotted one flying in the field. Conveniently it perched up on a light post, Mike got a look at it and we concluded the day on that happy note.

The month starts off with 52 species:

Species                Location

Canada Goose   Bamber Lake

Mute Swan   Sands Point Preserve

Tundra Swan   Bamber Lake

American Black Duck   Barnegat Beach

Greater Scaup   Sands Point Preserve

Long-tailed Duck   Sands Point Preserve

Bufflehead   Sands Point Preserve

Hooded Merganser   Bamber Lake

Red-breasted Merganser   Sands Point Preserve

Wild Turkey   New Egypt

Rock Pigeon   New Egypt

Mourning Dove   Sands Point Preserve

Ring-billed Gull   Sands Point Preserve

Herring Gull   Bamber Lake

Great Black-backed Gull   Sands Point Preserve

Great Blue Heron   Cloverdale Farm

Black Vulture   Pinehurst Rd

Turkey Vulture   Pinehurst Rd

Northern Harrier   Barnegat Municipal Dock

Bald Eagle   Sands Point Preserve

Red-tailed Hawk   New Egypt

Red-bellied Woodpecker   Poplar St boat ramp

Downy Woodpecker   Collinstown Rd

Hairy Woodpecker   New Egypt

Northern Flicker   New Egypt

American Kestrel   W Colliers Mill Rd

Blue Jay   Poplar St boat ramp

American Crow   New Egypt

Fish Crow   New Egypt

Carolina Chickadee   Poplar St boat ramp

Tufted Titmouse   Collinstown Rd

Red-breasted Nuthatch   Collinstown Rd

White-breasted Nuthatch   Cloverdale Farm

Carolina Wren   Collinstown Rd

Eastern Bluebird   Cloverdale Farm

Hermit Thrush   Collinstown Rd

American Robin   Bamber Lake

Northern Mockingbird   Collinstown Rd

European Starling   Barnegat Municipal Dock

House Finch   Collinstown Rd

American Goldfinch   Poplar St boat ramp

Field Sparrow   New Egypt

Fox Sparrow   Collinstown Rd

Dark-eyed Junco   Collinstown Rd

White-throated Sparrow   Poplar St boat ramp

Song Sparrow   Poplar St boat ramp

Red-winged Blackbird   E. Bay Ave

Brown-headed Cowbird   New Egypt Common Grackle  New Egypt

Yellow-rumped Warbler   Poplar St boat ramp

Northern Cardinal   Poplar St boat ramp

House Sparrow   Lower Shore Rd

We missed Mallard! How did we miss Mallard?