Barnegat Municipal Dock 3/20--Laughing Gull

I had the Year Bird Jones today. Yesterday, I spent my birding time at Colliers Mills looking, for probably the 15th time this year, for Red-headed Woodpecker. The absence of a post here about that species tells you the result. Today, I figured I may as well look at my other supposedly reliable spot, South Park Road in Tabernacle. This is usually a good place for Red-headed Woodpeckers; I believe I have a higher "hit rate" for them there than I do at Colliers Mills, but a back forth walk of 1.9 miles on the gravel and dirt road turned up none of the birds today. Plenty of other birds, including the first Wood Ducks I've ever seen there and a Pine Warbler every 100 feet, but the target bird remains elusive. 

And I still wanted a year bird.  So, I did something I rarely do. Usually, after a long walk, I'm pretty much done birding. As I've said, I bird every day, but I don't bird all day. And I'm especially averse to taking a long drive from one spot to the other but that's what I did this morning, driving 28 miles from South Park Road up 70, across 72, down Bay Avenue, to the Barnegat Municipal Dock parking lot. Because that parking lot is always full of gulls and I figured it would be the obvious spot for Laughing Gull, despite my earlier vow to just let that bird come to me. 

When I got there, it was full of gulls, but just Herring and Ring-bill Gulls, it seemed. Then a few gulls shuffled about and revealed my FOY Laughing Gull. A couple of minutes later a second one appeared at another spot in the lot and was quickly joined by a third. And there, along with decent pictures, is my accomplishment of the day. 

A quick scan of the bay turned up a pair of Horned Grebes and then a couple of American Oystercatchers on an island, both flagged as "Infrequent" on eBird. The "Infrequent" designation is a little mysterious. It could just be that the area isn't birded as much as it might be and thus the reports are sparse, or it really could be that the species doesn't turn up there much. For the most part when I encounter this flag, I assume the former. 

A couple of more stops on the way back home turned up semi-interesting birds: Greater Yellowlegs off the observation platform at the Barnegat Impoundments (hadn't seen them this month) and a Pied-billed Grebe in a channel along Bay Parkway in Waretown (again, "Infrequent," and maybe so, because it is the first time I've seen one there).

Barnegat | Manahawkin | Tuckerton 4/19--Willet, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Black-headed Gull, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, White-eyed Vireo, Ovenbird, Yellow Warbler, Seaside Sparrow

Willet, Great Bay Blvd

Mike and I ranged all over the southern section of the county today with two goals in mind: 1) lots of birds & 2) lots of new birds for the year. We accomplished both splendidly.

Starting off down on Collinstown Road in Barnegat, Mike, who'd been away for about 10 days, started to add birds to year list--"easy" ones like Blue-gray Gnatcatcher and Common Yellowthroat. A stop at Meadowedge Park got him Glossy Ibis (which I missed for the day) and quick turn into Woodmansie Blvd yielded him the expected Purple Martins.

I didn't get into the year bird act until Barnegat Municipal Dock where we had a flyby "flock" of 4 Willets (new for me, county birds for Mike). A ride down the road brought us to the Forsythe impoundments where we had two Northern Pintails (late, for this time of year), as well as two species of peeps, early for this time of year: Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers.

We went inland and walked around Cloverdale Farm for a while which was the least birdy spot of the day but it did offer up, at the feeder near the visitor's center, our first Ruby-throated Hummingbird, supposedly rare for the time of year, but, if you look at eBird, they were everywhere in the county today. Time to fix those filters.

A quick lunch and then we spent the biggest chunk of the day at the Manahawkin WMA, first by driving down Stafford Avenue and then by going around and walking the wooded area off Hilliard. The biggest and best surprise of the day was while we were walking the path to the back impoundment from Stafford. We saw a gull overhead, which from size we took to be a Ring-bill but a quick look at proved otherwise. It didn't have a black hood like a Laugher, and it wasn't the right size or flight pattern for a Bonaparte's. The under wings had black edges but the entire wing wasn't black. So, I finally have my Ocean County Black-headed Gull. Too bad it wouldn't land so I could produce photographic evidence. In fact, photos were hard to come by today--either the birds were too far, too fast, or were just heard, like the Ovenbird we had along Stafford, or the White-eyed Vireos we heard around the first field. We walked just to the edge of the back impoundment and came upon a little flight of warblers--Pine, Yellow-rumped, and our first Yellow Warbler of the year.

I was finally able to take a photo of a year bird once we got down to Great Bay Blvd in Tuckerton (a stop at Tip Seaman Park, known to birders for its expansive restrooms got Mike two more swallow species: Barn and Northern Rough-winged). Egrets, great and snowy, were everywhere you looked, as were large flocks of cormorants. We had timed our visit for low tide, thinking shorebirds would be on the mud flats and salt pans, but we were disappointed--not much to see and nothing new. We were hoping for dowitchers. However, we did heard, right after Mike mentioned that they would soon be singing, 3 Seaside Sparrows. He promises to use this power only for good. On our way out we found a Willet in the marsh and it dawned on me that there, at least, was a bird big enough and still enough to get into my camera. The saddest sight of the day was at the end of the road where the big eagle's nest was mostly on the ground along with any eggs or chicks that had been in it. It probably was the victim of vicious winds we had earlier in the week.

For the day, counting the whip-poor-will I heard tonight, I had 87 species and Mike, who along with the ibises heard a Hermit Thrush and saw a Hairy Woodpecker on Stafford, had 89. A tremendous day. If we tried to repeat it in a couple of weeks we could probably push a 100 what with the expected influx of warblers and shorebirds. We'll see.

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?

All Around Ocean County 1/25--Spotted Sandpiper, Merlin, Fish Crow, Common Grackle

Hen & Drake Redheads, Lake of the Lilies

What I thought would be a half-day of birding a couple of spots in Jackson with Mike turned into a marathon tour of the county as one desirable bird led to another.

We started off at FREC pre-dawn, where we were hoping for owls and especially woodcocks but the only birds we heard were a couple of early singing Carolina Wrens. Woodcocks, I fear, are going to be as big a pain this year as they were in 2018. We thought the fields of New Egypt might offer some interesting birds, so we headed west. At a 4 way stop on Hawkin Road we saw a huge flocks of big birds in flight and these turned out to be around 500 Snow Geese, county birds for both of us and one of the species we might expect to find a few miles away by New Egypt. Since we were passing Colliers Mills, we figured we may as well take a peek at the lake, which had a couple of Wood Ducks on the north end. In the power line stand sat an immature Bald Eagle. What we intended as a quick stop turned out to be almost an hour as we walked along Success Road and came up with a list of 24 species, nothing special, although Savannah Sparrows are always good to see.

Fortunately the fields at New Egypt were still in a frozen state, so the stench of manure and rotting vegetables wasn't overwhelming. Starlings are the predominant bird there, the species not known for its pickiness, but we did have a good sampling of cowbirds and for me a flock of Common Grackles overhead notched my first year bird. Crows were about. One, on Inman Road, seemed slightly smaller but was't vocal, so we let it go. After we drove past we heard it call. This is why our wives think we're nuts. A crow goes "caw-caw" and we don't care, it's an American Crow. A crow goes "eh-eh" and we high five: FOY Fish Crow. And the next time we hear "eh-eh?" We won't care.

Hen Common Goldeneye with Canada Geese, Bamber Lake

Mike needed Greater Yellowlegs for the year and I knew where to find them, so what if it was 30 miles away? We headed south down to Forked River, first making a stop at Bamber Lake where the enormous Tundra Swan flock was only slightly smaller than my last visit on Wednesday and the Ring-necked Duck flock was even larger. But the highlight there was a hen we saw diving among the geese. Goldeneye is a good duck anywhere and I'd never seen one at Bamber Lake before.

On to Eno's Pond where we picked up 9 yellowlegs for Mike's list, then south on 9 to Barnegat where the impoundments were not very productive save for Gadwalls and wigeons (but no Eurasian Wigeon). The most interesting bird of the day was found at the Barnegat Municipal Dock. We were scanning the bay in search of grebes and only finding the usual ducks--scaup, Buffleheads, Long-tail Ducks, etc, when I saw a shorebird fly in from the bay and land underneath the walkway on the supporting pier. I discarded my first impression immediately because the time of the year was all wrong. Our best guess was turnstone, but we couldn't see the bird from the angle we were at, so we walked down the walkway about 500 feet. Mike spotted the bird by leaning over the railing. I leaned over too but the bird was walking away. It had yellow legs, not orange-red like a turnstone, so we knew it wasn't that bird, but what was it? We walked toward it; it walked away. But the walking was the clue: it was BOBBING its tail. It was brown, had a long bill, and when it finally flew off toward the condos, it had a shallow wing beat, never raising its wings above its body. My first impression, based on that flight, had been right. It was a Spotted Sandpiper. No doubt about it, we've seen plenty of them both in and out of breeding plumage; just not in January. Too bad we couldn't get a picture but to lean much farther over the rail would have been risking a dunking. It is only a bird, after all.

We took a quick look at Manahawkin Lake and then, what else--we drove north. On Route 37 in Toms River we saw a flock of pigeons swirling around and right behind them, trying to cut one from the heard, a Merlin chasing. We crossed the bridge, first stopping in Mantoloking to look for the Snow Buntings I saw on Wednesday (a no show) and then on to the Lake of the Lilies in Point Pleasant Beach, hoping for the Black-headed Gull. All we found were the expected waterfowl, but seeing Redheads is always a good thing, especially toward the end of the day when your enthusiasm may be flagging.

Our last stop was Baltimore Avenue where for perhaps the 5th time this year the Black-headed Gull was not. A Glaucous Gull yes. But the Black-headed Gull shares its favors only with others, not us.

For the day we had 65 species. The last two year birds were the best. The sandpiper because it was rare, the Merlin because it was a bonus while stopped at traffic light.

(This, by the way, is entry #1500 in this blog.)

Ocean County 1/15--Hermit Thrush, Brown Thrasher, Cedar Waxwing, Swamp Sparrow, Orange-crowned Warbler

Hermit Thrush, Manahawkin WMA

Mike & I started off dark & early down in Barnegat along Collinstown Road, hoping for American Woodcock, which I fear is about to become a nemesis bird after being relatively easy for me to find until last year. For crying out loud, I once had one in the backyard, but today we must have been too late because at dawn there was no sign of them despite perfect habitat. Maybe the snow on the ground discouraged them.

No worries, as they say in Australia, we went over to the municipal dock to find a grebe for the county list. Lots of the usual ducks, but not a grebe in sight. Between us we've seen two this year--where are they all?

It wasn't until Taylor Lane, a little dirt road off of Route 9, that the birding started to pick up. Driving slowly with the windows open (and the heat on) we heard the distinct kissing note of a Hermit Thrush, FOY for both of us. The road peters out to mud after about 3/4 of a mile so we turned around and at the head of the road, just before Route 9, the birds started to come out. Along with usual sparrows, goldfinches, and cardinals, Mike heard a Cedar Waxwing--I don't hear waxwings unless they're on my shoulder. We got out of the car and there atop a tree with some sort of berry on it was a beautiful example. Mike says two, I saw one and that's all I need. So my favorite bird is on the year list.

Fox Sparrow, Manahawkin WMA

On to Manahawkin WMA for a walk where we were happy to see a couple of Hermit Thrushes instead of just listing a "heard only," bird. We also had a couple of nice sparrows--Fox Sparrow for Mike and Swamp Sparrow for both of us. We've reached the point where our lists are big enough for us to have to consider whether relatively common birds are new for the year or not and neither of us was sure about Swamp. I looked up my list and saw I didn't have it and Mike couldn't think of a place he'd had one so happiness prevailed.

Most of the water in the impoundments was frozen so we only had a couple of swans to list. No raptors. A female Belted Kingfisher was making the rounds--I guess there were enough open patches of water to make hunting worthwhile. On the way back we saw a Brown Thrasher fly across the path into the thickets. A few minutes later it emerged, flew around the bend in the trail was gone. They don't seem to respond to pishing. The thrasher was the 4th new bird, for me, for the year.

It's a good thing I keep a list of every stop because the sequence is already getting a little blurry in my memory. There was a stop at Tip Seaman Park in Tuckerton where there was lots of ducks of no consequence and then a ride down Great Bay Blvd with more ducks along the way. We took our scopes out to the inlet and Mike & I got into sort of mutual birding groove--in the water we found a Red-throated Loon simultaneously and then, scanning all the way over to the southern tip of Holgate on LBI, when I said, "I have a Northern Harrier" he said, "I have a Snowy Owl," so we switched scopes and both got both birds. The owl was sitting on a dune, very clear in the scope, with no photographers around--few make the 7 mile trek to that point. That's the way I like to see a Snowy Owl.

Our highlight bird was next. Mike "stepped away" for a minute and as I was scoping the bay in the other direction (finding a Common Loon for the day list) he called me over to a little patch of seaside goldenrod where he had a warbler. He couldn't get a good look at it and thought maybe it was a Palm Warbler, but I suspected that it was a "continuing" Orange-crowned Warbler, which I had chased down there more than a week ago. It popped up on a stalk of goldenrod and we both got excellent looks at this dun and shallow yellow warbler, probably the dullest warbler you're going to see but rare in NJ. I tried for pictures but the bird was way too active and aside from some nice botanical photographs, I came away empty.

On the drive north up the road we had a couple of Great Egrets, county birds for Mike, and after a Wawa stop, we continued on to Cloverdale Farm where the feeders were fairly active though siskin-less. We did add Pine Warbler to our list, so with the Yellow-rumped Warbler we had at Manahawkin, that made it a 3 warbler day, hard to do in mid-winter.

Bamber Lake was our next stop. Mike had never been there and since he needed Tundra Swans for the county it was a good excuse to show him where it was. We drove over to Toms River and added Canvasback to the day list and Lesser Scaup to our county lists. Marshall's Pond put Green-winged Teal on Mike's county list.

Finally, and I do mean finally, we drove over to Shelter Cove where, for the 3rd time I was looking for Wilson's Snipe. We found 5 American Tree Sparrows for Mike's list in the exactly the same tree where I'd seen two on Saturday, but no snipes, bookending the day nicely by failing to find two closely related species of non-shore shorebirds. The sun was setting--in the approximately 10 hours of daylight we had a day list of 65 species.

Working on the Ocean County List Redux

Harlequin Duck, drake, Barnegat Light SP

77 Ocean County species on 1/4: at this rate there won't be anything to do in December. Of course, "at this rate" is one of the great falsehoods of statistics.

Mike picked me up way early so that we could be on Beach Avenue in Manahawkin before dawn. We wanted owls. Within 12 minutes we had "hoo hoo" Great Horned Owl and "woooo-oooo" Eastern Screech Owl. üü  With those two on the list we were on our way to Cedar Bonnet Island where we added a few winter species like Savannah Sparrow and Northern Harrier. Then we hit the Ship Bottom Wawa and it was on to Barnegat Light SP to get Harlequin Duck and whatever other sea ducks we could find. 

Before we walked on the jetty (never fun for me and I climbed on at about the halfway point), we scoped across the inlet toward Island Beach and were happy to find a Snowy Owl sitting on the ground. It pays to have good optics. Since I don't care about getting a photograph of a Snowy Owl and in fact would like to keep as far away from them (and the orthinorazzi that chase after them) as possible, I was happy to get this bird on the list without having to actually trudge down the beach scanning the dunes. Now we had a 3 owl day before 9 AM. 

Common Eider, hen.

The inlet was teeming with Common Eiders with a smattering of other ducks including the Harlequins. If the hen King Eider was there we didn't see and we weren't going to seek it at the end of the jetty where eiders were thickest, because once we got past the beach and there was water on either side of us, the rocks were glistening and we could feel our footing slipping. I want a rare bird as much as the next guy (and the next guy is Mike) but we've heard too many horror stories of mishaps on that jetty  to risk life, limb, and optics (in fact, it amazes me the state allows people on it without even posting a hazard warning: the state must have great liability insurance or really vicious lawyers).

Surf Scoter, drake

We listed 27 species at the Light:
Brant 50
Canada Goose 20
Common Eider 150
Harlequin Duck 10
Surf Scoter 3
Black Scoter 1
Long-tailed Duck 20
Bufflehead 1
Ruddy Turnstone 20
Dunlin 200
Purple Sandpiper 2
Herring Gull 200
Great Black-backed Gull 10
Red-throated Loon 2
Common Loon 2
Northern Gannet 100
Great Cormorant 2
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Snowy Owl 1
Carolina Wren 1 Heard
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 15
Fox Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 2
Boat-tailed Grackle 30
Northern Cardinal 1
House Sparrow 5

Then we started "working" the bayside. We stopped at the marina, looking for the wintering Tricolor Heron without any luck. Then at the park on Bayview Avenue we added Greater Scaup & Belted Kingfisher to the list. We always stop at Sunset Park in Harvey Cedars, the reliable spot for Common Goldeneye except when it's not and when it's not you go south a mile or so to 24th street and scan the bay from there which is what we did and where they were. 

Another stop at Wawa (two hard boiled eggs for lunch) and back onto the mainland. We stopped at the easternmost end of E Bay Avenue to scan the bay from there without thinking that anything interesting would turn up, so naturally, when Mike spotted a raptoid blob in a distant tree on a distant island in the bay we figured it might be a Red-tailed Hawk but in the scope it proved to be, unmistakably, a Rough-legged Hawk. Another bird I don't have to think about for the rest of the year. 

We walked the trails at the Manahawkin WMA which were fairly dead by mid-afternoon and hit a few other spots without finding much of note. A little pond in Ocean Acres gave us our last two county birds, ducks, naturally, 6 Gadwalls and one Northern Shoveler. 

We looked for grebes of the Barnegat Municipal Dock (no) and then, as it was almost sunset, we figured what the hell we'd already been out for over 10 hours, why not take a run down to Cedar Run Dock Road and try to make it a four owl day with Short-eared Owl. But that didn't work out, so after 11 hours and more than 60 species, a day that felt very much like a Christmas Count or the World Series of Birding concluded. 

Ruddy Turnstone on the jetty

March Birds: Going Out & Coming In

Pine Warbler, Whitesbog

March is a transitional month for birding: Last chance to get those ducks and rare gulls until late autumn while at the same time, you get the first hints of spring migration.

The warblers aren't back yet unless you count the many Pine Warblers making their presence known, but in truth, a lot of them overwinter, they're just hard to find when they don't sing. But Eastern Phoebes were suddenly everywhere (Shari & I had 6 yesterday on a short walk at the northernmost section of Forsythe in Brick), and Ospreys are sitting on their platforms. We heard our first Clapper Rail last week. Pectoral Sandpipers are showing up--early migrants--and it's good to get them on list instead of searching for them in August.

In March I was able to add 2 winter gulls (Glaucous and Iceland), one in-coming gull (Laughing) and one rarity (Black-headed). I also finally got American Pipit and Snow Buntings on the list, so I don't have to "worry" about them anymore--except I'd like to have them both for Ocean County.

Swamp Sparrow in our backyard

Chipping Sparrow was an embarrassment--I mistook a Swamp Sparrow for one because I just couldn't believe we'd have a Swamp Sparrow in our backyard. But birds have wings and can wind up just about anywhere. Now, of course, Chipping Sparrows are everywhere and will spend the rest of the spring confusing everyone when they sing--was that a Pine Warbler or a Chipping Sparrow? Throw in Worm-eating Warbler and the fun trebles.

Well-known winter hater that I am, I have to concede one benefit of winter birding now that we'll soon be shifting into warbler/vireo mode--you don't have to get up early in the winter to get the birds. Ducks and gulls don't keep early hours. The sparrows are smart--they wait for the day to warm up before they become active. But those days are over for the next few months.

For March I had 126 species, a few more than I was getting the first two months of the year. All my birding was in NJ except for one stroll through Central Park.

Counties birded:
New Jersey: Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Middlesex, Ocean
New York: New York

Species             First Sighting

Snow Goose   Brig

Brant   Spizzle Creek

Canada Goose   Manahawkin WMA

Mute Swan   Manahawkin WMA

Tundra Swan   Brig

Wood Duck   Bunker Hill Bogs

Gadwall   Forsythe-Barnegat

American Wigeon   Forsythe-Barnegat

American Black Duck   Forsythe-Barnegat

Mallard   Manahawkin WMA

Blue-winged Teal   Davies Sports Complex

Northern Shoveler   Forsythe-Barnegat

Northern Pintail   Brig

Green-winged Teal   Forsythe-Barnegat

Canvasback   Brig

Ring-necked Duck   Brig

Greater Scaup   Graveling Point

Lesser Scaup   Davies Sports Complex

Common Eider   Barnegat Lighthouse SP

Harlequin Duck   Barnegat Lighthouse SP

Black Scoter   Island Beach

Long-tailed Duck   Island Beach

Bufflehead   Barnegat Municipal Dock

Common Goldeneye   Colliers Mills WMA

Hooded Merganser   Manahawkin WMA

Common Merganser   Brig

Red-breasted Merganser   Barnegat Municipal Dock

Ruddy Duck   Brig

Wild Turkey   Crestwood Village

Red-throated Loon   Barnegat Lighthouse SP

Common Loon   Island Beach

Pied-billed Grebe   Colliers Mills WMA

Horned Grebe   Graveling Point

Northern Gannet   Barnegat Lighthouse SP

Great Cormorant   Island Beach

Double-crested Cormorant   Brig

Great Blue Heron   Manahawkin WMA

Great Egret   Brig

Snowy Egret   Holly Lake

Black Vulture   Colliers Mills WMA

Turkey Vulture   35 Sunset Rd

Osprey   Brig

Northern Harrier   Brig

Sharp-shinned Hawk   Spizzle Creek

Cooper's Hawk   Mud City

Bald Eagle   GSP MM 49.8

Red-shouldered Hawk   Whitesbog

Red-tailed Hawk   Manahawkin WMA

Clapper Rail   Brig

American Coot   Brig

American Oystercatcher   Spizzle Creek

Black-bellied Plover   Great Bay Blvd

Killdeer   Barnegat Municipal Dock

Sanderling   Villas

Dunlin   Forsythe-Barnegat

Purple Sandpiper   Barnegat Lighthouse SP

Pectoral Sandpiper   Patriots County Park

Wilson's Snipe   Meadowedge Park

American Woodcock   Crestwood Village

Greater Yellowlegs   Eno’s Pond

Lesser Yellowlegs   Shelter Cove Park

Bonaparte's Gull   Cape May - Lewes Ferry Terminal

Black-headed Gull   Brig

Laughing Gull   Brig

Ring-billed Gull   Barnegat Municipal Dock

Herring Gull   Manahawkin WMA

Iceland Gull   Raritan Bay Waterfront Park

Glaucous Gull   Manasquan Inlet

Great Black-backed Gull   Barnegat Municipal Dock

Rock Pigeon   Bayview Marina

Mourning Dove   35 Sunset Rd

Belted Kingfisher   Manahawkin WMA

Red-headed Woodpecker   Colliers Mills WMA

Red-bellied Woodpecker   Manahawkin WMA

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker   Cattus Island County Park

Downy Woodpecker   Manahawkin WMA

Hairy Woodpecker   Forest Resource Education Center

Northern Flicker   Whitesbog

American Kestrel   New Egypt

Merlin   Colliers Mills WMA

Peregrine Falcon   Brig

Eastern Phoebe   Manahawkin WMA

Blue Jay   Manahawkin WMA

American Crow   Cloverdale Farm

Fish Crow   35 Sunset Rd

Common Raven   New Egypt

Tree Swallow   Wetlands Institute

Carolina Chickadee   Manahawkin WMA

Black-capped Chickadee   Central Park

Tufted Titmouse   35 Sunset Rd

Red-breasted Nuthatch   Cloverdale Farm

White-breasted Nuthatch   Manahawkin WMA

Brown Creeper   Forest Resource Education Center

Winter Wren   Forest Resource Education Center

Carolina Wren   Manahawkin WMA

Golden-crowned Kinglet   Forest Resource Education Center

Ruby-crowned Kinglet   Spizzle Creek

Eastern Bluebird   Cloverdale Farm

Hermit Thrush   White's Bogs

American Robin   Manahawkin WMA

Northern Mockingbird   Barnegat Lighthouse SP

European Starling   Barnegat Municipal Dock

American Pipit   Raritan Bay Waterfront Park

Cedar Waxwing   Barnegat Lighthouse SP

Snow Bunting   Brig

Pine Warbler   Whitesbog

Yellow-rumped Warbler   Spizzle Creek

American Tree Sparrow   Jumping Brook Preserve

Chipping Sparrow   Forest Resource Education Center

Field Sparrow   Colliers Mills WMA

Fox Sparrow   35 Sunset Rd

Dark-eyed Junco   Cloverdale Farm

White-crowned Sparrow   New Egypt

White-throated Sparrow   35 Sunset Rd

Savannah Sparrow   Brig

Song Sparrow   35 Sunset Rd

Swamp Sparrow   35 Sunset Rd

Eastern Towhee   Brig

Northern Cardinal   Cloverdale Farm

Red-winged Blackbird   Manahawkin WMA

Common Grackle   Barnegat Municipal Dock

Boat-tailed Grackle   Meadowedge Park

Brown-headed Cowbird   35 Sunset Rd

House Finch   35 Sunset Rd

American Goldfinch   35 Sunset Rd

House Sparrow   Stafford

Song Sparrow, Cattus Island CP