North Shore Shark River Area Revisited

The following birds were seen or heard on Saturday’s February 2nd North Shore (Shark River Area) field trip around the bay and lakes of Spring Lake, also Manasquan inlet jetty:

1. Common loon
2. Red-throated loon
3. Pie-billed grebe
4. Horned grebe
5. Great blue heron
6. Black crown night heron
7. Mute Swan
8. Canada goose
9. Hybrid mix? (greater white fronted goose x brant)
10. Brant
11. Mallard
12. Mallard – domestic
13. American black duck
14. Gadwall
15. American wigeon
16. Eurasian wigeon
17. Northern shoveler
18. Canvasback
19. Lesser scaup
20. Long-tailed duck
21. Surf scoter
22. Bufflehead
23. Hooded merganser
24. Red-breasted merganser
25. Ruddy Duck
26. Turkey Vulture
27. Accipiter species
28. Red-tailed hawk
29. American coot
30. Bonaparte’s gull
31. Ring-billed gull
32. Herring gull
33. Great black-backed gull
34. Rock dove
35. Mourning dove
36. Belted kingfisher
37. Northern flicker
38. American crow
39. Fish crow
40. American robin
41. Northern mockingbird
42. European starling
43. Yellow-rumped warbler
44. Northern cardinal
45. Song sparrow
46. Boat-tailed grackle
47. House sparrow
48. House finch

Rick Van Kirk