Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000
From: Laurie Larson
To: NJ Birds Mailing list
Subject: Updates
Updates (negative), 28 January 2000:
There have been NO reports this week regarding the Eared Grebes, Sandhill Cranes, Barrow's Goldeneye, Tufted Duck, Loggerhead Shrike. Given the weather, this is probably not surprising...
The Rufous Hummingbird is still doing fine. Karen reports: "The day after the snow storm, everything was melting off the gutters near his feeders. I have a little bird bath under the light (anything for the rufous) and the gutter was dripping into the bath. The next thing you know he was perched on the edge and put his breast and chin in and was splashing around. He was taking a BATH!! In that area it was 40+ deg. Then he went back to the lighted perch and cleaned all his feathers and tail. I never saw anything like this before, what a special blessing to watch this about 8ft away."
From PenJerDel, Chuck Hetzel reports the following at Stone Harbor last weekend: "About 35 Black-bellied Plovers, 45 Oystercatchers (one with some tasty bivalve), a Greater Yellowlegs, two Marbled Godwits, a number of peep: Semis and Westerns, and several Dunlin."
At least three reports came in of sizable flocks of Common Redpolls along the Old Mine Rd. Locations varied, anywhere from the Campground just north of the Water Gap, up to the Poxono boat launch.
Laurie Larson
llarson@Princeton.edu