Late in the day on Saturday, October 3, 2020, Steve Kolb was across from the Hyatt Hotel near the intersection of Jefferson and Smith Roads in Parsippany. This is the area of the eBird hotspot, Jefferson Rd. Pond. A black morph of the Eastern Gray Squirrel caught Steve’s attention and he attempted to get a photograph of it.
The previous night’s heavy migration dumped an impressive bounty of birds in the Morris area. As Steve was trying for a squirrel photo, one particular bird piqued Steve’s curiosity and he fired off a number of photos of the Ammospiza species he was seeing.
By late Sunday morning, mocosocoBirds was made aware of the find. A few people looked but the Nelson’s Sparrow was not relocated.
This is the first documented Nelson’s Sparrow for Morris County that mocosocoBirds is aware of. It already appears on the county list but without annotation.
Steve’s photos are stunning. Take a look at his Flickr page, here.
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The New Jersey Bird Records Committee web site is here and contains the list of accepted records, the list of review species, and annual reports.
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology’s Birds of the World online encyclopedia is here.
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