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Tag Archives: Lesser Black-backed Gull
Birds After the Storms – Mar. 10, 2018
Condolences to all who have endured hardship over the past nine days as two epic storms battered the northeastern United States. Seriously, enough is enough. A few highlight birds of late winter are currently in Morris County. Alex Bernzweig relocated … Continue reading
Glaucous Gull at Budd Lake, Mar. 2, 2013
(Click on photo for a larger image). It was a day for gulls in Morris County. Not the magnitude of numbers seen earlier in the week when 4,000 Herring Gulls dominated Budd Lake, but the quality of gulls that appeared … Continue reading
Posted in Morris County
Tagged birding, birds, Glaucous Gull, Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, mocosocobirds, nature, ornithology
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Rough-legged Hawk in Somerset Co.; field notes, Mar. 1, 2013
Thom Almendinger found a light morph Rough-legged Hawk (RLHA) this morning on Opie Road in Branchburg Township. The latest known record of the Bedminster RLHA (Rattlesnake Bridge Road) is February 25. We are reaching the end of the wintering RLHA … Continue reading
Gulls, Redheads and Redpolls, Feb. 28, 2013
Gulls continue at Budd Lake in impressive numbers. Herring Gulls decreased slightly from 4,000 to 3,000 although some were streaming in later in the afternoon. The numbers are relative. There seemed to be slightly fewer. 2 adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls, … Continue reading
Posted in Morris County
Tagged birding, birds, Budd Lake, Common Redpoll, Lesser Black-backed Gull, mocosocobirds, Morris County, nature, ornithology, Redhead
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Shorebirds, Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Lapland Longspur in Somerset Co., Feb. 11, 2013
(Click on the photo for a larger image) Kudos to Jeff Ellerbusch for finding a very well-hidden Wilson’s Snipe on Opie Road in Branchburg Township this afternoon. With the thick fog and poor visibility, I could easily have passed it … Continue reading
Posted in Somerset County
Tagged birding, birds, Lesser Black-backed Gull, mocosocobirds, ornithology, shorebirds, somerset county
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Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Cackling Goose, Jan. 12, 2013
Two Lesser Black-backed Gulls are in the mocosocoBirds region today. One in Morris County: From Tim Vogel: Saturday January 12, 2013 – 7:30 am Florham Park Fields Merlin Harrier (male adult) Red-tailed Hawk 2 Behind Affinty Fitness, Route 10 west, … Continue reading
Cackling Goose, Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1,000s of birds at Budd Lake, Jan. 9, 2013
The center portion of Budd Lake is open water while the majority of the lake surface is ice. When I arrived at the lake at 3:30 this afternoon there were well over 2,000 Canada Geese (CANG) on the ice and … Continue reading
Posted in Morris County
Tagged Budd Lake, cackling goose, Lesser Black-backed Gull, mocosocobirds, Morris County
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