binoculars – The Jersey Birder

What a day to forget my binoculars!

Cape May warbler perched among green tree leaves. The bird is mostly yellow with brown streaking and an orange spot ringing its eye, mostly below.

When I got to the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm this morning, I realized that I’d left my binoculars at home. Oops. It wasn’t worth the drive to fetch them, so I set out on the trails with only my camera. In the end, it was a minor inconvenience on what turned out to be aContinue reading “What a day to forget my binoculars!”

Gnatcatchers catch my eye

Blue-gray gnatcatcher, beak pointed upward, sits on a tree branch with leaves below and behind it.

On a relatively quiet morning at the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm, I approached a trail intersection near the old AT&T Building One site and spotted movement about halfway up some tall trees. Birds, undoubtedly, but what were they? As one flew from one branch to another, I spotted its white breast and gray wings andContinue reading “Gnatcatchers catch my eye”