New Jersey:

1. Atsion Lake, Route 206, Shamong (great for sunset)

Beaver Pond and the Mullica River, Wharton State Forest, from Rt. 206 take.

Quakerbridge Rd. and turn right towards the Mullica Campground

3. Goshen Pond, Shamong, off of Atsion Rd.<

4. Oswego Lake, Chatsworth, Rt. 563 to Lake Oswego Rd. (great for sunrise)

5. Chatsworth Lake, Rt. 532 (great for sunset)

6. Batsto Village, near Hammonton, Rt. 542

7. Apple Pie Hill, Chatsworth, Rt. 532 to Ringler Ave.

8. Franklin Parker Preserve, Chatsworth, entrances on Rt. 532 & Rt. 563 Franklin Parker Preserve is a relatively new reserve made up of old cranberry bogs and pinelands. New Jersey Conservation Foundation’s Emile De Vito will meet us in Chatsworth and guide us through this preserve, we will actually be able to drive through the reserve instead of the usual very long hike one needs to do to explore this gem. Franklin Parker Preserve is a really unique piece of habitat. This location came to be known in birding circles for its late summer gull-billed terns and a northern shrike that spent a few weeks there two winters ago. The reserve hosts tundra swans, rough-legged hawks, harriers and bald eagles in the winter, some of which will hopefully still be around. We may also be treated to pipit, Savanna sparrows and merlin. You never know what will turn up in a spot like this.

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9. Brendan Byrne State Forest, Chatsworth, Rt. 72

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10. Whitesbog, Browns Mills, Rt. 530 to Whitesbog Rd.

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Pine Barrens Information

A Field Guide to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey : Its Flora, Fauna, Ecology, and Historic Sites

by Howard P. Boyd
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