From Tim Vogel:

Northern Shrike continues – new location.
I spent about 20 minutes at the gravel parking lot and ball field with no luck.
Traveled out to the playground/ picnic pavillion area and noted the shrike perched in the top of a cedar tree on the right edge of the uncut field. I walked out and observed the bird hovering over the field, returning to the cedar several times. It then flew toward the fence and perched high up in another tree and then onto a pine. After about 15 minutes, I lost sight of it.
Also Killdeer, Pileated Woodpecker.

Tim Vogel
Denville

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5 Redheads (2 drakes; 3 hens) continue at Foxs Pond in Rockaway. A Ring-necked Duck, 8 Gadwall, 4 Lesser Scaup and other typical species were also present. This pond appears on the Hagstrom Morris County map as Parks Lake.

Male and female Redhead with Gadwall at Foxs Pond, Rockaway

Indian Lake in Denville continues to have approximately 65 Lesser Scaup – also, 30 Common Mergansers and 12 Buffleheads.

Mt. Hope Lake in Rockaway Township had 92 Mute Swans, 11 American Wigeon, 8 Gadwall, 8 Bufflehead. More will be written later in the season about the 2 Bald Eagles seen here.

Lake Parsippany had a Pied-billed Grebe, 40 Gadwall, 64 Common Mergansers, 3 Lesser Scaup, a few Ruddy Ducks and 10 American Coot. Horned Grebes should be occurring here within a week.

Boonton Reservoir, which has been lacking in waterfowl activity all winter, had 8 Bufflehead – period.

Lake Valhalla in Montville Township had 18 Ruddy Ducks, 8 Buffleheads and 2 Ring-necked Ducks. This place usually has at least double-digit numbers of Common Mergansers, but none today.

Butler Reservoir, Kinnelon – 8 Hooded Mergansers, 104 Common Mergansers (down from 200 the previous week), 2 Bufflehead and 11 Ruddy Ducks.

Some other lakes in the Roxbury region were also visited but there was simply nothing on them.

Submitted by Jonathan Klizas