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WILD NEW JERSEY: A DC Birding Blog: Birding the Middlesex Coast

A DC Birding Blog: Birding the Middlesex Coast

Semipalmated Sandpiper.
Photo Credit: Dendroica Cerulea

From A DC Birding Blog: Elsewhere in the Garden State, birders were delighting in a rare sighting of a Brown Booby in Jarvis Sound near Cape May. The booby was seen by the naturalists aboard The Osprey, a pontoon boat that runs daily birding excursions during the warmer months. I have taken several trips on that boat, and none of them turned up any birds that exciting!

I only found out about that rarity after returning home from an excursion to the Middlesex County portion of Raritan Bay. The first stop was at South Amboy's Morgan Avenue mudflats. As usual, there was a squad of Great Egrets perched in a small grove of trees close to the beach. The egrets were joined by one immature Yellow-crowned Night Heron.