Jersey Shore Magazine

11 OCEAN COUNTY: Point Pleasant Beach: • Gull Island County Park & Conservation Area, 419 Broadway • Lake of the Lillies, Elizabeth Avenue • Little Silver Lake, Arnold Avenue • Lake Louise, Niblick Street Sightings include Bufflehead, Hooded Merganser, Broadbill, Black Duck, Snow Goose, Gadwall, Blue-wing Teal, American Wigeon, Canvasback, various loons, ducks, terns, and gulls. Bay Head: Twilight Lake and Scow Ditch, Bridge Avenue Sightings include Osprey, Canvasback, Coot, various fish hawks, geese, gulls, and ducks. Trader's Cove Marina and Park, 40 Mantoloking Road, Brick Township Sightings include Osprey, Cormorant, Snow Geese, Least Tern, various fish hawks and gulls. Cattus Island County Park, 1170 Cattus Island Boulevard, Toms River Sightings include Osprey, Green Heron, Great Black-backed Gull, Foster's Tern, American Oystercatcher, Marsh Wren, Belted Kingfisher, Little Blue Heron, and Red-necked Grebe. Island Beach State Park, Route 35 South Sightings include Osprey, Northern Gannet, Sooty Shearwater, Brown and American White Pelican, Great Blue Heron, Little Blue Heron, Snowy and Great Egret, Snow Goose, Blue-winged Teal, Northern Shoveler, Glossy Ibis, White Ibis, Peregrine Falcon, and Snowy Owl. Barnegat Lighthouse State Park & Inlet, 208 Broadway, Barnegat Light Sightings include Harlequin Duck, Oldsquaw, Bufflehead, Merganser, Western kingbird, Snowy Owl, Gyrfalcon, Northern Gannet, American Golden-Plover, Oystercatcher, various warblers, vireos, thrushes, owls, loons, gulls, and terns. Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge: • deCamp Wildlife Trail, intersection of Adamston and Mantoloking Roads, Brick Township • Eno's Pond, 330 East Lacey Road, Lacey • Barnegat Observation Platform, Bay Shore Drive, Barnegat • Holgate Wilderness Area, Long Beach Blvd., Holgate • Graveling Point, Radio Road, Tuckerton • Forsythe Brigantine, 800 Great Creek Road, Galloway Sightings include Bufflehead, Goldeneye, Horned Grebe, Red-breasted Merganser, Black Duck, Atlantic Brant, Willet, Marsh Wren, and Salt-marsh Sparrow. Manahawkin Wildlife Management Area, Stafford Avenue, Manahawkin Take care when driving along the dirt road as potholes and standing water make for risky navigation. Sightings include Rough-legged Hawk, Meadowlark, Savannah Sparrow, Sedge Wren, Black Duck, and Short-eared Owl. For more information: New Jersey Audubon Headquarters, 9 Hardscrabble Road, Bernardsville, NJ 07924 www.njaudubon.org Scott Barnes: (609) 400-3859; email: scott.barnes@njaudubon.org Great Egret Tracking Project: www.njaudubon.org/ SectionCitizenScience/HarborHeronSurveys/GreatEgretTracking.aspx Hovnanian Sanctuary: www.njaudubon.org/default.aspx?tabid=2114 A Royal Tern at Island Beach State Park. Jill Ocone Judy Cardella j e r s e y s h o r e • F A L L / H O L I D A Y 2 0 1 6 Cattus Island County Park in Toms River.

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