Adventures in birding, radiating from central Jersey
This site is a compendium of observations on birds, birding and the flora and fauna inhabiting my world, with its axis in Area Code 609.
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We found bobolinks aplenty, with a grasshopper sparrow bonus
My buddy Jim and I drove back to the Lazy Brook Greenway on Saturday in search of bobolinks. which love the tall grasses in the greenway’s open fields. It wasn’t nearly as windy as on our previous visit, and we figured we’d have better chances to photograph the bobolinks. We started shooting within a few…
Capturing a wood thrush in two media
The mellifluent songs of wood thrushes fill the woods where I walk at the Mercer Meadows this time of the year, but it’s a rare day when I am able to spot one. My luck changed Sunday morning. I began my walk from the parking lot at the Reed-Bryan Farm side of the park and…
Another trip to the pines: warblers, lizards and a snake
Hoping to spot a summer tanager, my pal Jim and I drove south into the Pine Barrens this morning to the Michael Huber Prairie Warbler Preserve. The tanager would have been a lifer for me, and Jim figured our odds of spotting one were good because he’s seen them there for a few years running.…
Chasing bobolinks and wrapping up a record month
I’ve never had a better May for birding than this one. By spotting three double-crested cormorants in a tree at the Millstone River Impoundment in Princeton today, I logged my 100th species for Mercer County. The numbers are all well and good, especially since I had an eight-day stretch in which I didn’t have an…
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