art – The Jersey Birder

Indoor ‘birding’ at the Princeton University Art Museum

Claude Monet's "The Houses of Parliament, Seagulls, 1903" showing the Houses through a fog with a flock of seagulls soaring through the air.

With winds gusting to 50 mph today, I was not in the mood to battle the cold when I expected few birds would be flying. Instead, I headed to the Princeton University Art Museum, intent on pursuing a weird idea: to find birds depicted in the museum’s collections. The new museum, which opened to theContinue reading “Indoor ‘birding’ at the Princeton University Art Museum”

Blue jays are ruling the roost

2024 is turning out to be a banner year for blue jays, at least as I’m seeing and hearing them on my outings in Mercer County, New Jersey. Each time I look out the back windows at home, it seems two or three blue jays are flying up to our feeders or streaking by theContinue reading “Blue jays are ruling the roost”