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Field Trips
Note:
We all LOSE an hour Saturday night!
Date
Change! March 14 (Sunday) - BARNEGAT
LIGHT, NJ
Due to the weather forecast, this trip
has been changed from Saturday to Sunday.
A ½ day field trip ideally suited to NEW MEMBERS & STUDENTS
(but open to all members) to the best location in Jersey to see Harlequin
Duck and Purple Sandpiper. Common Eider are regular here and we’ll
look for King Eider. An assortment of ducks and loons should be found
in the inlet. The dunes hold “Ipswich” Sparrow and usually
Snow Buntings, and in good years longspurs. Dress warm. Meet at the
Lighthouse parking lot at 9:00AM.
This DVOC trip is free to members and non-members.
Leader: Chris
Walters
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reports from previous years
New in 2010
Date
Change! March 14 (Sunday) MIDDLE CREEK WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA,
PA
Birder reports, internet posts, and a scouting trip have revealed that
the area remains mostly frozen over. The trip is postponed until Sunday
March 14th. We will spend the afternoon into dusk. This will allow birding
the ponds, woodland edges, and fields while we experience the evening
fly-in of Snow Geese from nearby fields to their night roost in the
reservoir.
Meeting Place: Middle Creek Visitor’s Center on Museum Road in
the Wildlife Management area
Meeting time: 1:00pm
This DVOC trip is free to members and non-members.
Leader: Connie Goldman
March
27 (Saturday) – PINELANDS BIRDING, FRANKIN PARKER PRESERVE, NJ
Franklin Parker Preserve is a relatively new reserve made up of old
cranberry bogs and pinelands. New Jersey Conservation Foundation's Emile
De Vito will meet us in Chatsworth and guide us through this preserve,
we will actually be able to drive through the reserve instead of the
usual very long hike one needs to do to explore this gem. Franklin Parker
Preserve is a really unique piece of habitat. This location came to
be known in birding circles for its late summer gull-billed terns and
a northern shrike that spent a few weeks there two winters ago. The
reserve hosts tundra swans, rough-legged hawks, harriers and bald eagles
in the winter, some of which will hopefully still be around. We may
also be treated to pipit, Savanna sparrows and merlin. You never know
what will turn up in a spot like this.
We will meet at the Chatsworth Firehouse (corner of 563 and 532) at
9:00am and carpool into the reserve. After we are done in Franklin Parker
Preserve we will try a reliable red-headed woodpecker location in the
pinelands, or even go to Tuckerton in time allows.
This DVOC trip is free to members and non-members.
Leader: Tony Croasdale
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