Jersey Shore Magazine

10 BEACHCOMBER THE JERSEY SHORE…IT'S FOR THE BIRDS IN FALL!, continued from page 9 MONMOUTH COUNTY: Along the Raritan Bay: • Pirate's Cove, located on the border of Cliffwood Beach and Laurence Harbor on Ocean Boulevard by Whale Creek. (Note: no signage.) Sightings include loons, grebes, bay ducks, thrashers, and flycatchers. • Treasure Lake, Lakeshore Drive, Cliffwood Beach Sightings include Pied-billed Grebe, Gadwall, loons, Wood Duck, and Horned Grebe. • Cheesequake State Park, 300 Gordon Road, Matawan Sightings include Scarlet Tanager, Baltimore Oriole, Green Heron, Great and Snowy Egret, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Osprey, Marsh Wren, Short-eared Owl, and Rough-legged Hawk. • Conaskonk Point, off 8th Street, Union Beach Sightings include Black-headed Gull, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, American Golden-Plover, Hudsonian Godwit, Sanderlings, Red Knot, and Greater Scaup. • Keansburg Beachfront: Sightings include Common Goldeneyes, Great Cormorants, Common and King Elder, and Red-necked Grebe. • Natco Lake, Rose Lane, Hazlet (adjacent to the Henry Hudson Bike Trail) Sightings include Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Black- crowned Night-Heron, Belted Kingfisher, Least Tern, American White Pelican, and Rough-winged Swallow. • Leonardo State Marina, 102 Concord Avenue Sightings include loons, grebes, Orange-crowned Warbler, and Barrow's Goldeneye. • Hartshorne Woods, 1402 Portland Road, Highlands Sightings include Anhinga, Great Horned and Screech Owl, Eurasian Wigeon, Pileated Woodpecker, Mississippi Kite, Dickcissel, and Lincoln's Sparrow. • Oceanic Bridge, Bingham Avenue, Middletown Sightings include Bufflehead, Red-necked Grebe, Red-breasted Merganser, Canvasback, Tufted Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, American Black Duck, and Greater Scaup. Sandy Hook, Gateway National Recreation Area, Highlands Specific birding locations include Plum Island, the Spermaceti Cove boardwalk, the Horseshoe Crab salt marsh, and North Pond. Sightings include Western Grebe, Gyrfalcon, Arctic Tern, Long-billed Murrelet, Black Guillemot, Chestnut-collared Longspur, Painted Bunting, and Wilson's Plover. Monmouth Beach: Monmouth Beach Bathing Pavilion, 29 Ocean Avenue From the beach, look towards Shrewsbury Rocks. Sightings include Western Grebe. JERSEY SHORE BIRDING LOCATIONS For more information: www.njaudubon.org/SectionBirdingSites/GreatBirdingLocations.aspx Long Branch: • Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park, 221 Ocean Avenue Sightings include Razorbill, Long-tailed Duck, Bonaparte's Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Scoters, Loons, Brant, Snow Bunting, Shearwater, and Black-legged Kittiwake. • Lake Takanassee, series of ponds along Route 71/ Ocean Avenue Sightings include Canvasback, Ring-necked Duck, Hooded Merganser, Glaucous Gull, Iceland Gull, Wigeon, Lesser Scaup, and Ruddy Duck. • Pullman Avenue (Elberon), east of Ocean Avenue Look toward the ocean. Sightings include common Eider, Harlequin Ducks, Red-necked Phalarope, and Little Gull. Deal: Roosevelt Avenue; Phillips Avenue; Clem Conover Boulevard at oceanfront. Sightings include Pacific Loon. Allenhurst: on the boardwalk looking towards the ocean Sightings include loons, scoters, gannets, purple Sandpiper, various gulls and ducks. Manasquan: Fisherman's Cove Conservation Area, 391 Third Avenue Sightings include Snowy and Great Egret, Great Blue Heron, American Oystercatcher, Osprey, various gulls, geese, fish hawks, ducks, and terns. Howell: Manasquan Reservoir, 331 Windeler Road Sightings include Bald Eagle, Bonaparte's Gull, Snowy Egret, Red-tail Hawk, Baltimore Oriole, Black-and-white Warbler, Great Crested Flycatcher, Louisiana Waterthrush, and Yellow- throated Vireo. Spermaceti Cove at Sandy Hook. Paul Scharff 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

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