Redheads will not go away this season. The Clark Drive, Mt. Olive Redheads had been absent for a few days until this morning when Joe Pescatore found 4 males and 3 females and managed to get a stunning photograph of a drake in flight.

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From Tim Vogel:

Rockaway Borough:
I was traveling through the area when the email posted about the Redheads on Foxs Pond. I was unfamiliar with the name and couldn’t determine the location so I headed over to Parks Lake.
A similiar number and species were present:
3 Redheads plus Scaup, Gadwalls, Ring necks and Buffleheads. All in the north end with loads of people walking around the lake. Is this the same lake or a different one?

Also while staying local:
Muriel Hepner Pond, Denville
Lesser Scaup, Ruddy Duck, Bufflehead

Cooks Pond, Denville
25 Bufflehead, 10 Ring-necked Duck

Cedar Lake
35 Ring-necked Duck

Tim Vogel

Cedar Lake, Denville

Editor’s Note: To answer Tim’s lake identity question – Google maps lists Foxs Pond here. There is a label on the map for the “Park Lake Gazebo”. It appears this body of water is known by both names.

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Washington Valley, Morris Township: a beautiful clear twilight, a waxing gibbous moon, Venus and Jupiter in the western sky, from Washington Valley Road to Whitehead Road to Sayre’s Farm on Mendham Road, every field, every clearing has “peenting” and displaying American Woodcock filling the sky.

Submitted by Jonathan Klizas