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WILD NEW JERSEY: Courier News: Sunflower seeds luring back bobolinks, meadowlarks

Courier News: Sunflower seeds luring back bobolinks, meadowlarks

Seth Weintraub of Hillsborough photographs sunflowers during a tour of Duke Gardens hosted by the NJ Audubon Society, Sunday, August 21, 2011, in Hillsborough.
Photo Credit: Jason Towlen

The good news in early August was hard to miss for avid followers of “JerseyBirds,” an electronic mailing list used to report rare bird sightings. The eastern meadowlark and the bobolink, two grassland species seldom seen in Central Jersey, suddenly were being reported in large flocks across the area.

“The site went from having almost none of the birds we were looking for to now teeming with the target species,” Troy Ettel, director of conservation and stewardship for the New Jersey Audubon Society, said last month as he recalled the activity on the mailing list.