Registrar: Sherry Felix
Participants: 8
Weather: 85 degrees Fahrenheit, cloudy in the morning. The wind shifted from NW to S.
Bird Species: 56
Our small group of dedicated birders met at New Jersey Audubon’s Scherman Hoffman Wildlife Sanctuary at 8:30 am. We caught sight of a Scarlet Tanager, and an Eastern Towhee was singing high atop a tree. We walked within the sanctuary as far as the Passaic River.
We ate lunch by the Purple Martin houses at Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, our second stop in Morris County, then drove around looking for other birds within the Great Swamp. The highlight was a Ruby-throated Hummingbird sitting on a tiny nest by the road.
Our third and last stop was at Lord Stirling Park in Somerset County. We took our time walking because of the heat, which was bearable in the shade.
Species Lists
Birds
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (h)
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Double-crested Cormorant
Turkey Vulture
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker (h)
Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Yellow-throated Vireo (h)
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee (h)
Tufted Titmouse
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
White-breasted Nuthatch (h)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
House Wren
Marsh Wren (h)
Carolina Wren
European Starling
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Eastern Bluebird
Veery
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
House Sparrow
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Chipping Sparrow (h)
Field Sparrow (h)
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow (h)
Eastern Towhee
Baltimore Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Ovenbird (h)
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Butterflies
Great Spangled Fritiary
Mourning Cloak
Spicebush Swallowtail
Little Wood Satyr
Common Wood Nymph
Silver-spotted Skipper
Cabbage White
Odonates
Ebony Jewel Wing
