Blue-winged Teal, Rusty Blackbirds, Pine Warbler, other birding Notes, March 18, 2012

A morning spent at Glenhurst Meadows in Warren Township by Jeff Ellerbusch, Simon Lane and this writer produced the following:

Green-winged Teal – 5
Wood Duck – 20
Killdeer – 4
Wilson’s Snipe – 17
Eastern Phoebe – 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet – 6
Pine Warbler (the same individual seen the previous evening by J.E.)
Yellow-rumped Warbler – 20
Field, Savannah, Fox, Song, Swamp and White-throated Sparrows
Rusty Blackbird – 6
And typical species of the area.
The Blue-winged Teal seen the previous evening was not found.
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From Alan Boyd:

Hi Jonathan,

No sign of Mike’s blue-winged teal this afternoon. There were 8-9 ruddy ducks in the marsh behind the second pond. A dog walker flushed a snipe from the shore of the first Clark Drive pond as we were driving by. – Alan Boyd
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Simon Lane did find a Blue-winged Teal at the bridge on Pleasant Plains Road in the morning along with a Hermit Thrush at the 90-degree turn. A Northern Harrier was seen later in the day at the overlook. Harriers have been virtually absent from Morris County this season but are being seen more frequently of late.
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Lake Parsippany and Mt. Hope Lake held nothing different from what has been there recently. Numbers are diminishing especially at Mt. Hope (except for Mute Swans!). The Horned Grebe flurry of a few days ago seems to have passed for now. Common Loons should be passing through shortly.
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Washington Valley, Morris Township (Patriot’s Path and Sayre’s Farm) late in the afternoon had Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Pileated Woodpecker, Field, White-throated and lots of Song Sparrows.

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