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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Standard time sets up sunset shots
We’re back on standard time, and that means I’ll tweak the times for my birding outings. Even when I headed out to the Pole Farm this morning, I was contemplating a return after 4 p.m., hoping to get shots of Northern harriers hunting. To my delight, that actually happened. As I walked up the central…
Photo feast or famine while birding
Most of the time, I aim to post “day of” on my birding outings. Having spent 32 years in daily journalism, I put a high value on keeping things current. This post, however, leads with a photo that I shot the day before. On Thursday, I posted the hawk take-off sequence I shot at Veterans…
Getting a hawk as it takes off
With another gorgeous fall morning aborning, I made two birding stops today. After looping Spring Lake at Abbott Marshlands, I headed to Veterans Park in Hamilton to see if I might find a few late-arriving birds to add to my October log. Several killdeer were plucking at the edges of the lake, and I took…
The Northern harriers are back where they belong: the Pole Farm
Early this year, it seemed that fewer Northern harriers than usual were hunting in the fields of the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm. I’m happy to report that as fall is in full swing, the harriers are back and reliably on view most days. This morning, for example, one of the harriers was parked on a…
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