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2009 World Series of Birding Scouting Notes

Coordinated by the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club (DVOC)
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Northern New Jersey

Page last updated Tuesday, May 5, 2009 11:50 PM

DeLorme Page Numbers 18-39

All Page Numbers and Blocks refer to DeLorme's New Jersey Atlas & Gazetteer

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While the verbal sharing of scouting information is doing great, the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club (DVOC) has created this page in an effort to make it even easier to keep up with the latest finds and re-finds. Significant help has been provided by Smithsonian Ornithology Capital Kingbirds. We hope you will help by sending your updates to:

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DeLorme map ##, block ##, date, species, any specifics as to location, observer/team.

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DeLorme Map #18

Block J-9 Spruce tract outside of Bevans
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4/19 - Blewett Tract aka "Spruce grove outside of Bevans"- Yellow-throated Warbler in traditional location, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Pine Siskins, pair of Common Mergansers on Flatbrook - Brian Clough - Scarlet Knight-herons

Block G-9 Van Ness Rd. and Van Auken Road
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DeLorme Map #19

Block C-20 AT&T Tower (High Point State Park)
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Block D-19 Sawmill Lake Campground (High Point State Park)
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Block E-19 Cat Bog
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Block E-24 - Wantage Grasslands
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Block K-15 - Culvers Lake from causeway
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Block G-21 - Lewisburg Swamp
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DeLorme Map #23

Block A-17 Flatbrookville-Millbrook Rd
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Block B-16 Flat Brook / Delaware River
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Block D-15
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4/18 - abandoned buildings approximately 1.5 miles south of Millbrook Village -- singing Red-breasted Nuthatch - Carl Bernzweig, Wicked Witchities

Block D-17 Appalachian Trail Crossing
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4/18 - pond approx. .5 miles north of Millbrook Village -- singing Blue-headed Vireo - Carl Bernzweig, Wicked Witchities

Block G-18 Spring Valley Rd. / Cocka-doodle-doo Pond
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Scouting notes from 5/3/09 (The Loons)

Wallkill NWR

Basset Bridge – Barred Owl

Liberty Loop Trail (Oil City Road) –

Way back – last impoundment – Moorhen, Barred Owl, Screech (only for about 30 seconds) –
Around the midpoint – farmhouse “field” – Woodcock – Can still hear both owls from here

Quarry Road – near barn by back end of Black Dirt Marsh
– Grasshopper Sparrows in fields
Wood ducks in marsh

 

 

5/3 From Brian Clough - Scarlet Knight-herons

Black Spruce Bog...not much. Northern Waterthrush, no Purple Finches.

Sawmill Rd...1.0 mi after intersection with Park Ridge: Cerulean Warbler, BH Vireo

Cat Swamp: Nashville Warbler, Pileated, Sapsucker, Downy, Pine Siskins, Least Flycatcher, Pine Warbler, Creeper

Sawmill rd, 0.7 mi past lower Park Ridge intersection: Cerulean Warbler

Crigger Rd: 0.2 mi from intersection with deckertown turnpike: Worm-eating Warbler, YT Vireo

singing Yellow-rumped Warbler across from number 10 Hiram's Grove road..seemed territorial

Blewett- YT Warbler again, RB Nuts, White-throated Sparrows, Ruby-crowned Kinglets (still quite a few)

4/19 - Cliff Swallows on nest at the DOT barn - Brian Clough - Scarlet Knight-herons

4/19 - Thunder Mountain Road- Wood Ducks (upper and lower ponds), Green-winged Teal (upper pond). No Pied-billed Grebes, and the water level in the lower pond where they were last year is significantly higher. - Brian Clough - Scarlet Knight-herons

4/19 - Tilman's Ravine, dirt road on the right just past upper parking lot (when coming from Walpack Center)- Red-breasted Nuthatch (2), Blue-headed Vireo, Brown Creeper. - Brian Clough - Scarlet Knight-herons

4/19 - Lake Ocquitunk Campground; road up towards SOC 200 ft past stone bridge: Brown Creeper, Hermit Thrush - Brian Clough - Scarlet Knight-herons