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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Which way to go? Follow the rare bird
A week had passed since I last went birding, and I was determined to get out before work this morning. But which way to go? At first I thought I’d go to my go-to place, the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm. But birders had spotted a common gallinule — rare in these parts — the past…
A few photos to brighten a wet weekend
We’re in a stretch of rainy days, and I’ve also been busy with commitments on the Princeton campus. My birding has thus been limited, and I decided it was time to post a few recent photos previously unpublished. I devoted my previous post to the prothonotary warbler I’d seen at the Dyson Tract. That morning…
Spotting the prothonotary warbler and its nest
Each of the last few years, prothonotary warblers have shown up during Spring migration at the Dyson Tract along the Delaware and Raritan Canal. It took me a few visits, but today I struck gold, so to speak. As I arrived at the parking lot, I turned on the Merlin app and hoped it would…
Warbler weekend has been a blast
Spring migration probably reached its peak this weekend, and I spent a good deal of time in the field to experience it. The highlight was Saturday, when my friend Jim and I went to the Ted Stiles Preserve on Baldpate Mountain, hard by the Delaware River at Titusville, New Jersey. Although I’d hiked Baldpate a…
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