Jan 30
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Is this the same Coop I had earlier? This one seems huge. Maybe there's a pair.
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| Whatever it was, it got away. |
Trenton
Palm Warbler
Orange Crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Both kinglets
Pine Warbler
Jan 29
Fox Sparrow! at feeders. First time in 4 or 5 years.
Allenhurst
White Scoter 1
Black Scoter many
Surf Scoter 8
Red breasted Merganser 2
Long tailed Duck 13
Razorbill 1
N. Gannet 12 (beautiful, watched diving and sitting on water)
Red throated Loon
Common Loon
Herg
Rbgu
Lesser Blackbacked Gull 1, sitting on jetty. Shdv photographed.
What else?
Jan 28
Monroe
Canada Geese, 500
Snow Goose 1
Great Horned Owl, maybe, might also have been a hawk, or a bag ... ?
Jan 26
Trotter track, E Windsor
Horned Lark 100 *
Jan 25
Song Sparrow showed up at feeders.
Monroe - local
Large flock CAGO
Snow Geese 2
Jan 24
Did not want to drive yet, so walked up the road, over the bridge into Monroe. Temps mild, and no wind almost. Great day for a walk. Missing were White-crowned Sparrow, Horned Lark, Yellow-rumps.
Feeders
Carolina Wren 1 *
Downy WP
House Sparrow
Plus same as yesterday
Street
WT Sparrow
House Finch (maybe PUFI, need to check pics)
Rusty Blackbird * - awesome bird for this location
YB Sapsucker 2 - possible first for the area. *
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Juncos
Blue Jays
Ring-billed Gulls - beautiful against the pure blue sky
Monroe
White-throated Sparrows
Juncos
Song sparrows 10
Mourning Doves
Tree Sparrow 1 seen, about 5 heard *
Fox Sparrow 1 *
Jan 23
Historic Blizzard of 2016! Not good visibility from my back window since the wind was blowing directly to the north.
Feeders
WB Nuthatch
Blue Jays 5
Am. Robin 1
Juncos 25
White-throated Sparrow 10
House Sparrows 30
Mourning Dove 5
C. Chickadees 2
House Finch 1
Grackle 1
Red-winged BB 3
Cardinals 2
others ... ?
Jan 22
Florence
I needed to go find a Glaucous gull before the Blizzard set in on Saturday. As soon as I pulled up there was a huge flock right off the lot.
Glaucous Gull 1 (adult - beautiful) *
Herring Gull 200
Ring-billed
Great BB Gull 1
Lesser BB Gull 1 *
Bald Eagle 1 adult *
Canada Geese 6
Jan 18
North Shore
In search of gulls. Stopped at 7 Presidents' Park, nothing around except a few Herring Gulls. The dredging project is not there this year, so the large gull flock I was hoping for did not pan out.
Next, up to Deal. Most of the areas are blocked off here now with limited viewing. The end of Roosevelt Ave. has only one side open out onto a partial jetty. The gulls I could see were all Herrings, but there were hundreds of gulls in the distance where I could not find an access point.
Finally, around Deal Lake I came across a flock of gulls, mostly Ring-bills. But a few 1st cycle Herrings as well. This one had an unusual bill, and in "real life" the bill appeared huge for the bird which was only slightly larger than the Ring-bills.
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| Herring Gull giving its best Aythya duck imitation. |
While I was studying this gull, I noticed the little Ring-bill next to it had bands on both legs.
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| The gull on the left has some bling. |
Also seen:
Northern Gannet 18 (Belmar)
Red-throated and Common Loons (Belmar)
What else?
GBB Gulls
Double-crested Cormorant
1st year Ring-billed Gulls are pretty.
Jan 17
Harlem Meer
Quiet, again.
Gadwall 6
Mallards 24
Ring-billed Gulls 10
Blue Jays 5
White-breast Nuthatch 2
Cardinals 2
Robins 18
Starlings
House Sparrows
Pigeons
Home Feeders
First snow of the season!
Usual birds, just a few more than usual, plus:
Cardinals 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Really is a slow start to the year.
I did think I saw a siskin, but we'll wait to get a better look.
No sign of the Coop for a few days.
Jan 16
Middlesex Rd, Monroe
Canada Geese 300
Barnacle Goose
Barg x Cackling hybrid 2
Mallards
Applegarth-Wycoff Mills Rd.
Massive flock of Canada Geese staging, at least one Cackling.
Searched for the white tail, no luck so far.
Jan 15
Cape May
2nd trip this week ... not good. Very gray and quiet.
Rea feeders:
Gold Finch
House Sparrows
White-throated Sparrows
Cardinal
Mourning Dove
Red-tailed Hawk
Yellow-rumped Warbler
CMP:
Northern Shovelers *
Pintail ducks*
Mallards
Gadwall
Mute Swan *
Sharon Station Rd
Northern Harrier 2 (one gray ghost)
Jan 13
Etra Lake
Same as yesterday except
Greater White-fronted Goose 1 *
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| Great White-fronted Goose with Canada Geese |
Jan 12
Etra Lake
Canada Geese 1000
Cackling Geese 5-8 *
RN Ducks ~20
Hooded Mergs ~20
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Cackling Goose, near Etra Lake. Seems a bit large, but many small geese in this flock.
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Jan 11
Drove to Cape May bayshore looking for gulls. Only usual suspects present. Some shorebirds, likely Dunlin, down on the flats.
Sharon Station Rd
Merlin*
Jan 9
Feeders
Cooper's Hawk
Trenton Sewage
Palm warbler 2
Yellow warbler 1 (bright yellow)
Nashville Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped 12
Yellow-throated 1
Pine Warbler 2 (one bright one drab)
(Still no OC)
Ruby and GC Kinglet
Herring
Ring-billed
Greater and Lesser Black-backed gulls
Corp Park
Two CAGO struggle to break through the ice. They made it, but why do some freeze to death in the water?
Jan 8
Thompson Park, Jamesburg
Canada Geese 1000
Barnacle Goose 1 *
hybrid BARG x CACK 1
Ring-billed Gulls
Black Duck 3
Mallards x
Domestic Geese (?)
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| Barnacle Goose completely not cooperating with my photo attempts. |
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| Find the Barnacle Goose and the hybrid. Are they mates? Parent and offspring? Or siblings? |
Jan 7
Tinicum, PA
Mountain Bluebird 1 *
Eastern Bluebird 12 *
YR Warbler 8
House Finch 3 |
| I was all atwitter over this bird. |
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| I really need a better lense! |
Rt. 29, PA
Common Merganser *
Mercer County Park
Canada Geese 500
Snow Goose 1* (foy seen)
Mercer County Park
Canada Geese 500
Snow Goose 1* (foy seen)
Feeders
New - Downy WP
Jan 6
Feeders
chicadees
Blue Jays
WB Nuthatch
House Sparrows
Mourning Doves
Junco
slow start to the year at the feeders
Jan 5
DeKorte
FOY
Fox Sparrow 1
American Kestrel, female 1
Others:
Lots of White-throated Sparrows
Cardinal
Blue Jay
Yellow-crowned Kinglet
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Water was completely frozen, no waterfowl.
Jan 4
My feeders
below freezing today
House Sparrows 25-20
Carolina Chickadees 3 (two in wren house)
Juncos 4
Mourning Dove 3
Tufted Titmouse
Trenton Sewage Authority
Yellow-throated Warbler 1 (very confiding)
Nashville Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warblers 20
Pine Warbler 1
Quick looks at Palm and Yellow
missed the Orange Crowned
Ruby crowned Kinglet 2
Golden crowned Kinglet 3
Juncos
Cardinal
House Sparrow
White throated Sparrow
Starlings
Ring-billed Gulls
Am Crows
what else?
Etra Lake
Canada Geese 150
Hooded Mergansers 17
Mallard
Corp Park
Canada Geese 100
Mallards 8
Bufflehead 3
Jan 2
Wall Twp. CBC
with Mary L. and Bob D.
Canada Geese 563
RB Duck 4
Ruddy Duck 3
Gadwall 11
Mallard 16 (+ 6 hybrids)
Black Duck 7
Song Sparrow 11
Swamp Sparrow 1
Cedar WW 52 (probably a low count)
Robins (with Newfoundlands ?) 699
Starlings 144
Catbird 1
Am. Crows 18
House Sparrow 3
House Finch 24
RB Woodpecker 2
Downy WP 4
Flicker 2
Mourning Dove 7
Red-tailed Hawk 4
Cooper's Hawk 1 (+ 1 that Mary L. didn't agree with, but ... )
N. Harrier 2
Junco 13
WT Sparrow 49
Cardinal 8
RB Gull 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 16
Black Vulture 2
Turkey vulture 8
Tufted Titmouse 3
American Goldfinch 6
Brown-headed Cowbird 45
Red-winged Blackbird 87
Carolina Chickadee 11
Rock Pigeon 45
Blue Jay 8
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Carolina Wren 6
Northern Mockingbird 6
+Purple Finch officially added, that was not fully confirmed in the field
Jan 1
Point pleasant Beach/Manasquan Inlet
with Emi and Derek
Herring Gulls 100
Ring-billed Gull 15
Great BB Gull 25
Bonaparte's Gull 1
Red throats Loon 1
Common Loon 1
White-winged Scorer 1
Bufflehead 20
Hooded Merganser 6
Canada Geese
Mallard
Brant at the docks
Rock pigeons
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| Bonaparte's Gull, Manasquan Inlet |
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| Herring Gull and Great Black-backed Gull |
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| Great Black-backed Gull, same as above |
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| Herring Gull, not the same as above |
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| Manasquan Inlet |
