For information about this mailing list please visit the NJBIRDS main page.
There is a female-plumaged Lark Bunting at Stone Harbor Point. Jimmy Dowdell found it this morning. The bird seemed to favor an area just south of the parking lot at Stone Harbor Point. Either scan the bushes from the corner of the parking lot near the port-o-johns south towards the tip, or walk down the path just inside the dunes towards the point. About 75-100' from the parking lot down the path to the point is a sandy area off to the right (west or inland side) where there is an "L" shaped cove in the vegetation. The bunting liked that area. When someone walked slowly into this "cove" the bird would flush up and sit in the bushes in the vicinity. At one point it flew north along the beach, towards the condominiums, but eventually returned back towards the parking lot, another time it would fly to the south into the center of the scrubby area between the parking lot and the big sandpile at the south end of the path to the point.
A Buff-breasted Sandpiper was seen briefly by a CMBO group while out at the south end of Stone Harbor Point, though it was seen to depart.
Shawneen Finnegan