Weird Duck Time again
Here we are almost in July and yet I'm writing about a birding trip in March... which should give you an idea of how much I've been birding so far this year. Ah well. With the exception of our fun weekend down in Georgia in February, we did barely any out-of-DC birding over the winter. By the time early March rolled around, I realized that winter was coming to a close and we still hadn't been out to the coast to look for winter waterfowl, which obviously wouldn't do. Nikki and I decided to head out to coastal New Jersey to the Barnegat Lighthouse in what is becoming something of an annual tradition . We even managed to convince our birding friends Cassie, Vikas, and George to join in. On March 10 the five of us piled into my car and made the drive east to the coast of New Jersey. I'm of the opinion that the barrier islands on the Atlantic Coast are one of the most underrated areas of natural beauty in the US. The landscape from DC out to the coast, however, is.....