I went on a field trip to Barnegat Inlet on Saturday morning (1/28). I nearly missed it. For some reason, I (again) misread/ misremembered the date and thanks only to my husband, I made it.
I saw: common eiders, common loons, red-throated loons (both of which looked very similar and when I asked why I didn't see a red-throat, learned that they are in their winter plummage), double-crested cormorant and another type of cormorant (great?), harlequin ducks, plovers, purple sanderlings, gannetts, common turnstones, a carolina wren, a yellow-bellied woodpecker, and others that I am forgetting b/c I did not write them down.
Then, this morning, I was lucky enough to rise before sunrise and watched the dawn come. As I snapped photos, I happened to note some birds floating on the water. About five or six. From their silhouettes, I venture to guess that they were loons.
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