{"id":15659,"date":"2022-04-27T18:06:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T22:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/?p=15659"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:41:27","slug":"belleplain-state-forest-april-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/belleplain-state-forest-april-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Belleplain State Forest, April 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Belleplain State Forest, April 2022<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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This page combines birds from two separate trips to Belleplain State Forest and vicinity, on April 8 and April 27, 2022. The area offers both migrants and breeding birds, and the dates were chosen to see both. While April 8 was a fine day, it was a little early for breeders; unfortunately, April 27 was a cold day with rising winds and difficult for any kind of birding.<\/p>

The route in both cases covered the State Forest, with stops at bridges, lakes, and wetlands; then Jakes Landing for saltmarsh species, East Point light, and Heislerville for shorebirds and other species.<\/p>

Our highight birds for April 8 included Yellow-throated Warblers, Louisiana Waterthrush, and a Black-headed Gull (East Point) with Bonaparte’s Gulls. April 27 was more difficult birding but we enjoyed the antics of the Osprey and Cormorants at Heislerville.<\/p>

Our route was two-lane roads, Route 206 to 54 through Hammonton, 557 to Millville, and 47 south to Belleplain,\u00a0 avoiding freeways almost completely.<\/p>

Participants (combined trips):<\/strong> Dino Fiabane, Holly Hoffman, Robert Koch, Laurie Larson, Miriam Swartz, Mary Walter, Mike Zickler.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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List, April 8:<\/strong>
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Mallard
American Black Duck
Bufflehead
Wild Turkey
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Killdeer
Sanderling
Dunlin
Greater Yellowlegs
Bonaparte’s Gull
Black-headed Gull
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Common Tern
Forster’s Tern
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Glossy Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Eastern Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
House Sparrow
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Chipping Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-throated Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Louisiana Waterthrush
Pine Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
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Combined notes from two trips, April 8 and April 27 2022. April 8 was a fine early spring day, while April 27 was very windy, with less bird activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-field-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15659"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16791,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15659\/revisions\/16791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}