A-Brant

Photo Study Of Some Neat Birds At Barnegat, Brigantine And Cape May This Weekend

We were able to get to Barnegat Jetty, Brigantine and Cape May this weekend. While we saw both Harlequins and Common Eiders at the jetty, we were still unable to photograph them. Nevertheless, the sandpiper show was spectacular. Brigantine featured the American Bitterns near Gull Tower and a very small, furtive almost impossible to photograph Virginia Rail. Of course, Cape May still has the very cooperative First Cycle Ivory Gull which has allowed itself to be photographed by anyone and everyone with a camera!

Ivory Gull Flies At Cape May

Ivory Gull Flies Into Bree-Zee-Lee Yacht Basin At Cape May

Ivory Gull Flies At Cape May

Virginia Rail Hides At Brig

Please click on either the captions or the thumbnails below to see a larger image...thanks!

At Barnegat Light State Park:


A-Brant	B-Dunlin	C-GreatBlack-backedGull	D-GreatBlack-backedGullPreens	E-HerringGull

F-PurpleSandpiper	G-PurpleSandpiper	H-RuddyTurnstone	I-RuddyTurnstone	J-SandpiperMosaic

K-Sanderlings	L-SandpipersLand

At E.B. Forsythe NWR (Brigantine):


A-AmericanBittern	B-AmericanBittern	C-Brant	D-GreatBlueHeron	E-HoodedMerganserDrake

F-HoodedMerganserDrakeFlies	G-HoodedMerganserHen	H-NorthernPintailDrake	I-NorthernPintailHen	J-RuddyDuck

K-RuddyDuckHen	L-SnowGoose	M-VirginiaRail	N-VirginiaRail	O-VirginiaRail

P-VirginiaRail

At Cape May, NJ:


A-GreatBlack-backedGullCalls	B-JuvenileGreatBlack-backedGull	C-IvoryGull	D-IvoryGull	E-IvoryGull

F-IvoryGull	G-IvoryGull	H-IvoryGull	I-IvoryGull	J-IvoryGull

K-IvoryGull	L-IvoryGull	M-IvoryGull	N-IvoryGullPortrait	O-IvoryGull

Revised December 9th, 2009

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