Friday, May 11, 2018

WEEKEND TRIP MIGRATION AT NEW JERSEY’S PREMIER COASTAL SITES MAY 4 - MAY 6

Indigo Bunting on Island Beach Reed's Trail photo by Marc Brawer
Scarlet tanager at Sandy Hook photo by Marc Brawer

Eastern Towhee at Sandy Hook photo by Marc Brawer

Leader Peter Dorosh

Participants: Marc B, Sandy P, Alie R, Kellie Q , Ryan G ( Friday), Richard P( Friday)

Locations : Sandy Hook National Seashore, Cattus Island County Park, Island Beach State Park, Edwin G Forstyhe NWR ( Brigantine)

Species total : 132 
(101 on Sandy Hook 1st day)

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S45415355

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S45415241

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S45415014

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S45414957

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S45371991



MASTER SPECIES LIST (ALL LOCATIONS)

Brant  X
Canada Goose  X
Mute Swan  X
Wood Duck  X
Gadwall  X
Mallard  X
American Black Duck  X
Green-winged Teal  X
Red-breasted Merganser  X
Common Loon  X
Double-crested Cormorant  X
Great Blue Heron  X
Great Egret  X
Snowy Egret  X
Little Blue Heron  X
Tricolored Heron  X
Green Heron  X
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  X
Glossy Ibis  X
Black Vulture  X
Turkey Vulture  X
Osprey  X
Northern Harrier  X
Sharp-shinned Hawk  X
Cooper's Hawk  X
Bald Eagle  X
Red-tailed Hawk  X       
White -Crowned Sparrow Sandy Hook photo by Marc Brawer

Clapper Rail  X
Sora  X
American Oystercatcher  X
Black-bellied Plover  X
Semipalmated Plover  X
Piping Plover  X
Killdeer  X
Whimbrel  X
Ruddy Turnstone  X
Dunlin  X
Least Sandpiper  X
Semipalmated Sandpiper  X
Short-billed Dowitcher  X
Wilson's Snipe  X
Spotted Sandpiper  X
Solitary Sandpiper  X
Greater Yellowlegs  X
Willet  X
Lesser Yellowlegs  X
Laughing Gull  X
Ring-billed Gull  X
Herring Gull  X
Great Black-backed Gull  X
Gull-billed Tern  X
Common Tern  X
Forster's Tern  X
Black Skimmer  X
Mourning Dove  X
Chimney Swift  X
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  X
Red-bellied Woodpecker  X
Downy Woodpecker  X
Northern Flicker  X
Merlin  X
Peregrine Falcon  X
Great Crested Flycatcher  X
Eastern Kingbird  X
White-eyed Vireo  X
Blue-headed Vireo  X
Red-eyed Vireo  X
Blue Jay  X
American Crow  X
Fish Crow  X
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  X
Purple Martin  X
Tree Swallow  X
Barn Swallow  X
Carolina Chickadee  X
Tufted Titmouse  X
White-breasted Nuthatch  X
House Wren  X
Marsh Wren  XCarolina Wren X
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  X

Willet at Brigantine,photo Marc Brawer

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  X
Eastern Bluebird  X
Swainson's Thrush  X
Hermit Thrush  XAmerican Robin X
Gray Catbird  X
Brown Thrasher  X
Northern Mockingbird  X
European Starling  X
Cedar Waxwing  X
Ovenbird  X
Northern Waterthrush  X
Black-and-white Warbler  X
Nashville Warbler  X
Common Yellowthroat  X
American Redstart  X
Northern Parula  X
Magnolia Warbler  X
Yellow Warbler  X
Chestnut-sided Warbler  X
Black-throated Blue Warbler  X
Palm Warbler  X
Pine Warbler  X
Yellow-rumped Warbler  X
Prairie Warbler  X
Wilson's Warbler  X
Seaside Sparrow  X
Chipping Sparrow  X
Field Sparrow  X
White-crowned Sparrow (Dark-lored)  X
White-throated Sparrow  X
Savannah Sparrow  X
Song Sparrow  X
Swamp Sparrow  X
Eastern Towhee  X
Scarlet Tanager  X
Northern Cardinal  X
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  X
Blue Grosbeak  X
Indigo Bunting  X
Bobolink  X
Baltimore Oriole  X
Red-winged Blackbird  X
Brown-headed Cowbird  X
Common Grackle  X
Boat-tailed Grackle  X
House Finch  X
American Goldfinch  XCommon Raven X
Black-capped Chickadee X


Seaside Sparrow at Brigantine (Photo by Sandy Paci)




Love at Sandy Hook, Oystercatchers photo by Marc Brawer




Nesting Piping Plover photo by Sandy Paci