7:00-10:00 – below freezing. With Jeff Ellerbusch, Joe Pescatore, Simon Lane and myself. Noteworthy were 120 Rusty Blackbirds in the vicinity of the Passaic River and 35 Wilson’s Snipe (at least) in the flooded field at Wagner’s Arboretum.

Here are the highlights:

Green-winged Teal – 65
Ring-necked Duck – 2
Common Merganser – 8
Great Blue Heron – 4
Sharp-shinned Hawk – 2
American Kestrel – 1
Killdeer – 5
Wilson’s Snipe – 35
Red-headed Woodpecker – 1
Eastern Phoebe – 2
Fish Crow – 1
Tree Swallow – 6
Brown Creeper – 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet – 3
Fish Crow – 1
Eastern Bluebird – 4
American Robin – 30
American Pipit – 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler – 6
Rusty Blackbird – 120

Submitted by Jonathan Klizas