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Photo Study Of Some Birds At Barnegat Jetty, February 4th, 2010

The prospect of being "snow-bound" for a few days with my wife, daughter and two year old grandson, was ample reason to get me to drive to Barnegat Light State Park yesterday.

The Top Of The Barngat Lighthouse

What a fortunate decision! The birds were there, in bright sunshine, which ultimately resulted in a fun day for this old picture-taker.

In any event, species seen but not photographed were:

American Crow
American Pipits
Third Year Bald Eagle
Cooper's Hawk
European Starlings
Great Black-backed Gulls
Great Cormorant
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Snow Buntings
Yellow-rumped Warblers

Still, there were lots of Long-tailed Ducks, Scoters, Red-breasted Mergansers, Harlequins and a single 1st Year Male Common Eider to keep my camera busy.

Black Scoter Drake

Surf Scoter Drake

1st Year Common Eider Drake

Long-tailed Duck Drake

Harlequin Drake

Red-breasted Merganser Drake

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


A-Long-tailedDuckDrakeLands	A-Long-tailedDuckHen2	A--Long-tailedDuckHenFlies	A-Long-tailedDuckMaleSpring	A-Long-tailedDuckPair

A--Long-tailedDucktDrake	B-SurfScoter1stWinter	B-SurfScoterDrake	B-SurfScoterDrake2	B-SurfScoterDrake3c

B-SurfScoterDrakeFlies	B-SurfScoterDrakeFlies2	B-SurfScoterHen	B-SurfScoterHenFlies	B-SurfScoterHenLands

C-BlackScoterDrake	C-BlackScoterDrake2	D-CommonEiderDrake	D-CommonEiderDrake2	D-CommonEiderDrake3

D-CommonEiderDrake4	D-CommonEiderDrake5	E-CommonLoon	E-CommonLoon2	F-HarlequinDrake

F-HarlequinDrake1stWinter	F-HarlequinDrake2	F-HarlequinHen	F-HarlequinHen2	G-Red=breastedMerganserDrakeFlies

G-Red-breastedMerganserDrake	G-Red-breastedMerganserHen	G-Red-breastedMerganserHenFlies	G-Red-breastedMerganserHenFlies2	H-HerringGull

H-HerringGull1	H-Ring-billedGull	I-Black-belliedPlover1	I-Black-belliedPlover2	I-Black-belliedPlover3

I-Black-belliedPlover4	J-Brant	J-Brant2	K-PurpleSandpiper	L-RuddyTurnstone

M-Dunlin	N-IpswichSavannahSparrow	O-White-throatedSparrow

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