Next 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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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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