RECENT SIGHTINGS
 
  

Long-eared Owl

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2012
2/6	Karyn Cichocki photographed the snowy owl at Merrill Creek Reservoir. On the water were common mergansers, buffleheads and black ducks. She had 50 robins in her yard in Lafayette.	Photo
2/3	Tom Halliwell had a cackling goose and 8 redheads on Turtle Pond in Andover. He had the marsh wren at Twin Lakes, Kittatinny Valley State Park.
2/2	Twin Lakes, Kittatinny Valley S.P.: Mike Tracy had a hermit thrush and the continuing marsh wren.	Photo
1/30	Liberty Loop, Wallkill River NWR: Mike Gannon photographed a peregrine falcon.	Photo
1/27	Kittatinny Valley S.P.: Tom Halliwell had a northern shrike in the hedgerow slightly past the Twin Lakes parking lot on Goodale Rd.
1/25	Fred Weber had over 3000 gulls at the Sussex County landfill in Lafayette including a tan immature Iceland gull and an adult lesser black-backed gull. An adult bald eagle was also present. (See info to the left on birding the landfill).
1/23	Montague: Marianne Ofenloch had a flock of grackles, red-winged blackbirds and cowbirds feeding in her yard.
1/22	Mike Tracy again photographed the marsh wren he first found at Twin Lakes in Kittatinny Valley State Park on 1/8.	Photo
1/22	Don & Donna Traylor had a cackling goose, 3 male redheads, and several ring-necked ducks on Turtle Pond in Andover. A blue snow goose was with Canadas on the Pequest River along Creek Rd in Tranquility. They had their first purple finch of the year at their feeder in Frankford Twp.
1/22	Lafayette: Karyn Cichocki had a song sparrow and 20 white-throated sparrows at her feeder. A yellow-rumped warbler was at her bird bath.
1/21	At her bird bath in Lafayette, Karyn Cichocki had a robin, a yellow-rumped warbler, a bluebird and a grackle.
1/19	Fred Weber had an immature glaucous gull and two adult lesser black-backed gulls at the Sussex County landfill in Lafayette. (See info to the left on birding the landfill).
1/18	Jim Zamos had 2 cackling geese on Turtle Pond on Pequest Rd in Andover.
1/16	Augusta: Mike and Sue Gannon had about a thousand grackles and red-winged blackbirds in their yard.
1/15	Barb Sendelbach photographed the northern shrike near the Liberty Loop parking lot on Oil City Rd.	Photo
1/14	Jim Zamos had 6 redheads on Turtle Pond on Pequest Rd in Andover.
1/14	Donna Traylor had a northern shrike from the Liberty Loop parking lot looking north.
1/14	Swartswood Lake: Mike Hiotis had 5 hen red-breasted mergansers, 7 common goldeneye, 5 redheads, 2 canvasbacks, 23 ring-necked ducks, 126 common mergansers, a pied-billed grebe, hooded mergansers, coots, a yellow-bellied sapsucker, a pileated woodpecker, and a 3rd year bald eagle.
1/13	Marianne Ofenloch photographed a pair of canvasbacks and a hybrid goose at Swartswood Lake.	Photo Photo
1/12	Swartswood Lake: Marianne Ofenloch had 450 Canada geese, 350 common mergansers, 28 hooded mergansers, 1 common goldeneye, 1 pied-billed grebe, 1 scaup sp., 8 mute swans, 5 redheads, 1 hen canvasback. Most of the birds were visible from Hendershots Cove on Rt 619.
1/11	Sussex County landfill: Fred Weber has had 2 lesser black-backed gulls so far this month. Pelletown Rd in Frankford had a white-crowned sparrow near the new development. Swartswood Lake had 5 redheads visible from Hendershots Cove.
1/9	Karyn Cichocki had a pair of adult bald eagles at Little Swartswood Lake. Big Swartswood Lake had an immature bald eagle, pied-billed grebe, gadwall, bufflehead, hooded & common mergansers, ring-necked ducks, common goldeneye and lesser scaup. Culver lake had common goldeneye, hooded & common mergansers.
1/8	Delaware Valley area: Jack Padalino led a search for eagles that produced 27 species of birds including 21 bald eagles, 8 red-tailed hawks, a Coopers hawk, and a pileated woodpecker. (See our field trip link for info on upcoming trips.)	Photo Photo
1/8	Jack Padalino has a pileated woodpecker coming to his suet feeder.	Photo
1/8	Mike Tracy photographed a marsh wren at the Twin Lakes area of Kittatinny Valley S.P.	Photo
1/7	Tom Halliwell had a lesser black-backed gull on Lake Musconetcong on the ice behind the theater.
1/7	Hainesburg, Warren County: Joe Burgiel & Marge Barrett had a female/juvenile male pine grosbeak on the Paulinskill Valley Trail about a quarter-mile west of the Hainesburg viaduct. Right where the power line ends, there is a clearing on the left filled with multiflora. The bird was at the far end of the clearing associating with white-throated sparrows and titmice.
1/6	Hyper Humus: John Drinkard photographed an adult bald eagle.	Photo
1/6	Swartswood lake: Tom Halliwell had 4 redheads, 2 lesser scaup, 3 pied-billed grebes, 200+ common mergansers, 50+ hooded mergansers, 10+ buffleheads, 3 common goldeneye, 5 gadwall, 5 American wigeon, 15+ ring-necked ducks, and 150+ Canada geese.
1/5	Swartswood Lake: Alan Boyd had 3 redheads along with common goldeneye, hooded & common mergansers, buffleheads, ring-necked ducks & gadwall. An immature bald eagle was over the beach at the state park. A drake pintail was with black ducks & mallards at Waterloo Lakes above the Indian village.
1/5	Steve Fasciana photographed a cackling goose on the Pequest River along Creek Rd in Tranquility.	Photo
1/1	Jack Padalino had a cackling goose east of Savage Point on Culver Lake. He had green-winged teal and wood ducks at the Hainesville Wildlife Management Area lake. Four thousand common grackles were at the Flatbrook Game Management Area, and a black vulture roost was discovered on Clove Rd just north of mile marker 1. He got photos of a bald eagle and its nest on Culver Lake.	Photo Photo
1/1	Mike Tracy photographed a catbird in the parking lot for the Sussex Branch Trail near mile marker 1 on Hicks Ave in Newton.	Photo