Photo Study Of Some Birds At Brig, Tuckerton and Barnegat, October 21st, 2011

Photo Study Of Some Birds At Brig, Tuckerton and Barnegat, October 21st, 2011

    We were able to get to E.B. Forsythe NWR, Tuckerton Marsh and Barnegat Light yesterday. Brigantine had two out of the three musts for
    birding picture takers, i.e., bright sunshine and low tide. Would you believe, despite the great conditions, we only saw one shorebird, a very lonely
    Greater Yellowlegs. There were lots of Yellow-rumped Warblers on the modified cones (berries) of the Red Cedars. Tuckerton Marsh had a
    flock of 150 Black-bellied Plovers and another of about sixty Greater Yellowlegs. Barnegat had its fair share of Yellow-rumped Warblers too but
    a bathing Ruddy Turnstone was my photo op of the day. In any event, here are some of the pictures:

Yellow-rumped Warbler At Brig

Savannah Sparrow At Brig

American Bittern At Brig

American Coot At Brig

Royal Tern Flies Over Barnegat Jetty

Ruddy Turnstone At Barnegat

Blackpoll Warbler At Barnegat

Don Freiday, The E.B. Forsythe NWR Visitor Services Manager, Greeting Us Upon Arrival

Species Seen Today:

Snow Goose	Osprey	Forster's Tern
Canada Goose	Bald Eagle	Barred Owl
Wood Duck	Sharp-shinned Hawk	Blue Jay
American Black Duck	Merlin	Fish Crow
Mallard	Peregrine Falcon	Tree Swallow
Northern Pintail	Northern Harrier	Northern Mockingbird
Northern Shoveler	Semipalmated Plover	European Starling
American Coot	Black-bellied Plover	Yellow-rumped Warbler
Pied-billed Grebe	Ruddy Turnstone	Blackpoll Warbler
American Bittern	Semipalmated Sandpiper	Chipping Sparrow
Great Blue Heron	Stilt Sandpiper	Savannah Sparrow
Great Egret	Greater Yellowlegs	Saltmarsh Sparrow
Snowy Egret	Bonaparte's Gull	Seaside Sparrow
Black-crowned Night-Heron	Ring-billed Gull	Song Sparrow
Double-crested Cormorant	Herring Gull	Northern Cardinal
Wild Turkey	Laughing Gull	Red-winged Blackbird
Black Vulture	Great Black-backed Gull	Boat-tailed Grackle
Turkey Vulture	Royal Tern	Mourning Dove

A Ruddy Turnstone put on quite a show today taking a bath on the jetty at Barnegat.
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RuddyTurnstone1	RuddyTurnstone2	RuddyTurnstone3	RuddyTurnstone4	RuddyTurnstone5

RuddyTurnstone6	RuddyTurnstone7	RuddyTurnstone8	RuddyTurnstone9

Here are some more photos taken today at Brig, Tuckerton and Barnegat.
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Double-crestedCormorant AtBrig	Double-crestedCormorant AtBarnegat	GreatEgret AtTuckertonMarsh	GreaterYellowlegs AtTuckertonMarsh	MonarchOnJuniper AtBrig

PeregrineFaalcon AtBrig	Pied-billedGrebe AtBrig	RoyalTern AtBarnegat	RuddyTurnstone AtBarnegat	RuddyTurnstone AtBarnegat

RuddyTurnstone AtBarnegat	RuddyTurnstone AtBarnegat	SavannahSparrow AtBrig	SnowyEgret AtBrig	SnowyEgret2 AtBrig

WildTurkeys AtBrig	Yellow-rumpedWarbler AtBrig	Yellow-rumpedWarbler2 AtBrig	Yellow-rumpedWarbler3 AtBrig	Yellow-rumpedWarbler4 AtBrig

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