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                                           Bergen County Audubon Society

Winter - Summer 2008 Field Trips
All field trips are open to the public free of charge. --- Beginners are welcome to all Programs and Field Trips. There will be experienced birders to help out the beginners on fie
ld trips.

 

 Jan. 13 (Sat.) Barnegat Lighthouse St. Pk.

 Leader: Ken Witkowski (973) 208-9808

Time: 10:00AM. Bring lunch. Dress for cold, windy weather. Wintering fowl, seabirds and possible rarities.

Feb. 9 (Sat.)  Merrill Creek Reservoir                                                                                                               

Leader:  Ken Witkowski (973) 208-9808                                                                                                              

Time: 9:30 AM.  Call Ken for meeting place. Bring lunch. Waterfowl. 

March 15 (Sat.)  North Shore & Manasquan Inlet

Leader:  Bill Resotko 1 (732) 899-2004

Time: 9:30 AM.  Call for meeting place.  Bring lunch. Loons, ducks, grebes, seabirds.

March 29 (Sat.)  Sandy Hook

Leader: Peggy O’Neill  (201) 868-5829

Time: 9:00 AM  Meet at Sandy Hook Visitors Center. Bring lunch. Spring migrants, passerines, waterfowl, raptors.

April 19 (Sat.)  Teaneck Creek Conservency                                                                                                  

Leader: Dick Engsberg (201) 947-0596                                                                                                            

Time: 9:00 AM.  Early migrant warblers and other passerines.  Directions – One block east                     of Teaneck Rd & Puffin Way,  Teaneck.

April 26 (Sat.)  Hatfield Swamp.

Leader: Dave Hall (973) 226-7825

Time: 8:00 AM. Meet at King’s  Supermarket parking lot on Bloomfield  Ave., West Caldwell.        Early migrants

 April 27 (Sun.)  Hyper Humus 

Leader: Ken Witkowski (973) 208-9808

Time: 8:30 AM.  Call for directions.  Bring lunch. Waterfowl, shorebirds, passerines.

 May 3 (Sat.)  Overpeck County Park

Leader:  Dick Engsberg (201) 947-0596  

Time: 8:00 AM.  Meet at parking area next to playground and riding stables.  Spring migrants.

May 10 (Sat.)  Spring Count.

Coordinator: Dave Hall (973) 226-7825   Call Dave if you would like to participate.

Count Fundraiser – Peggy O’Neil  (201) 868-5829

 May 17 (Sat.)  Garrett Mountain Reservation

Leader:  Ken Witkowski (973) 208-9808

Time: 7:30 AM.  Meet in upper parking lot. Migrant warblers/other passerines.

 May 24 (Sat.)  Flat Rock Brook Nature Center 443 Van Norstrand Ave, Englewood

Leader:  Dick Engsberg (201) 947-0596

Time: 8:00 AM  Call Dick for directions.  Late migrants, nesting birds.

May 31 (Sat.)  Glenhurst Meadows – Formerly called Warren Green Acres.

Leader: Gerry  Byrne (201) 262-0157

Time: 8:00 AM . Garden St. Pkwy south to exit 142 – West on I 78 to exit 36. Left on King George Rd for about ˝ mile and turn left onto Mountain Ave. Follow Mountain Ave to large silo on left. Just past silo, road dips. At bottom of dip turn left.  View late migrants and nesting birds.

 June 8 (Sun.)  High Point State Park

Leader: Ken Witkowski (973) 208-9808

Time: 8:30 AM   Bring lunch.  Call Ken for directions/meeting place. Nesting warblers and other nesting passerines.   

 July 26 – 27 (Sat. – Sun.)  Bombay Hook  and Little Creek NWR, Delaware.

Leader: Harold Feinberg (201) 525-0614

Time: 9:00 AM. Meet at the Refuge Visitor Center. Call Harold for directions and information. Great weekend for rare shorebirds, terns and many other birds.

 Aug. 17 (Sun.)  Jamaica Bay NWR.

Leader: Harold Feinberg (201) 525-0614

Time:  8:00 AM.  Meet at Refuge Visitor Center.  Call Harold for information. Migrating shorebirds.