OPPORTUNITIES OF 

 BERNARDSVILLE 



By William S. Post 



From New Brunswick to Florida and west to Colo- 

 rado I have found few places more favored for bird 

 study than Bernardsville. 



Here the Alleghanian and Carolinian avifaunae 

 overlaj). Here also we have dry uplands, rocW 

 wooded hills and streams, and great open swamp 

 lands close at hand. Within two or three miles at 

 most are to be found the Crested Titmouse, Acadian 

 Flycatcher, Worm-eating Warbler, and more rarely 

 but regularly Henslow Sparrow. Louisiana Water- 

 thrushes abound along our streams, a pair or two 

 near the head waters of each, while the lisping drawn 

 out z-e-e of the Blue-winged Warbler can be heard 

 around the edge of almost all our old neglected fields 

 and thickets. These represent the Carolinian fauna, 

 yet the general list is of the Alleghanian. 



One da}'^ in May, within a space of 100 yards. I 

 found a pair of Carolina Wrens and a Saw- whet Owl. 

 This was a case where extremes met; both were far 

 out of their usual range, particularly the Owl, which 

 seldom nests further south than the Adirondack 

 mountains. 



Our upland, hill and woodland birds are well known 

 to all "Oriole" readers, but if you have never in 

 early June Avaded out into the "cut off" of the Great 

 Swamp below Basking Ridge, it is well worth while 

 to do so. Here all changes! Before you leave the 



