Northern rough-winged swallows – The Jersey Birder

A fine birding spot ruined, or nearly so

Canada geese ply the marshy area in front of one of the newly built warehouses on the site.

One of my frequent and favorite birding spots until last year was Mercer Corporate Park, a site with a USDA office and a few other small office buildings clustered around two small lakes that attracted a wide variety of birds. For many months, construction crews have put up two large warehouses and dramatically changed theContinue reading “A fine birding spot ruined, or nearly so”

Bobolinks abound at Alpha Grasslands Preserve

A bobolink turns its head while perched atop a green shrub. The bird's head is mostly tan with a yellow beak, and the breast is yellow below a streaky brown neck.

I’m plodding along on my quest to go birding in all 21 of New Jersey’s counties, and today I registered No. 14. My pal Jim and I drove north along the Delaware River to visit the Alpha Grasslands Preserve in Warren County. Google Maps took us to a trailhead on Oberly Road, where a signContinue reading “Bobolinks abound at Alpha Grasslands Preserve”