New Jersey Outdoors: Gull chases falcon on North Shore birding tour


Photo credit: New Jersey Outdoors

By Bill Lynch: "One of my favorite birding trips during the winter is New Jersey’s “north shore” – the coast of NJ from Sandy Hook south through the Point Pleasant area.  It includes the beaches and ocean as well as the many coastal ponds in this area.  On Friday I headed south with fellow birders Tom Reed and Orion Weldon.

We noticed a fishing boat coming in off the ocean with a huge swarm of gulls in its wake.  Hoping for a rarity, possibly even a kittiwake, we searched through the flock but were distracted when Tom called out to us.  A huge Peregrine Falcon was moving up the inlet, and as it flew in front of us zeroed in on a Bonaparte’s Gull.  It took a pass at the gull, which threw itself into the water to escape the hungry raptor."

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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 12/26/2010 11:00 AM
Categories: Birds
Tags: north shore sandy hook point pleasant Bonapartes Gull Peregrine falcon
 

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