NJ Bird Photos: Birds of New Jersey

Info & pictures of common New Jersey birds including the downy woodpecker, sharp-shined hawk, heron, cardinal, belted kingfisher, warbler, robin, tufted titmouse, finch, blue jay, mallard, cormorant, pied-billed grebe, wood duck, Canadian goose, nuthatch, yellow-bellied sapsucker, northern flicker, red-bellied woodpecker, chickadee, lesser scaup, hooded merganser, green-wind teal, hairy woodpecker & goldfinch. Most bird photos were taken from our backyard on Lake Nelson in Piscataway, NJ.

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Northern Cardinal

Labels: Northern Cardinal, Summer Birds

Friday, July 4, 2008

Happy 4th of July

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Young Tufted Titmouse

This tufted titmouse has been waiting near the feeder while its mother gets seed for it. Today, it got its own seed.

Labels: Summer Birds, Tufted Titmouse

Mallards

We've watched this family of mallards grow up this spring. The ducklings are now almost the same size as the mother.

Labels: Ducks, Mallard, Summer Birds

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Chickadee with a seed at the feeder

The Blue Jays take a peanut to a tree branch, and spend the next minute pecking it apart and eating it. The Chickadee does the same thinng with a sunflower seed.

Labels: Chickadee, feeder, Summer Birds

Tufted Titmouse

Labels: feeder, Summer Birds, Tufted Titmouse

Turtle in the Sun

Labels: Turtle

Muskrat

Chris doesn't like the muskrat at all so Mike had to post his pictures.

Labels: Muskrat

Our favorite NJ bird photos include Hairy Woodpeckers, the Black Crowned Night Heron, the Double-crested Cormorant, the Kestrel, the Goldfinch- The State Bird of New Jersey, the Red-bellied Woodpecker, the Mute Swan, a Baby Blue Jay, the Great Egret, Great Blue Heron, a Downy Woodpecker, baby ducks and baby geese.

If you have a quality photo of a bird seen in New Jersey, mail it to us and we'll post on this blog. Birds only, no people. 12mb or less.

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American Avocet
American Goldfinch
American Robin
Babies
Bananaquit
Barn Swallow
Belted Kingfisher
Black Necked Stilt
Black and White Warbler
Black- capped Chickadee
Black-crowned Night Heron
Blue Heron
Blue Jay
Blue-Winged Teal
Booby
Brown Creeper
Brown- headed Cowbird
California
Canada Goose
Canadian Goose
Caribbean
Carolina Wren
Cedar Waxwing
Chickadee
Chipmunk
Commom Loon
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Common Mergansers
Common Moorhen
Contributed Photos
Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Downy Woodpecker
Ducks
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Kingbird
Fall Birds
Finch
Flamingos
Frigate
Goose
Grackle
Gray Catbird
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Greatest Hits
Grebe
Green Backed Heron
Green Heron
Green- winged Teal
Groundhog
Guana Island
Hairy Woodpecker
Hawk
Heron
Hooded Merganser
House Finch
Hummingbird
Island Beach State Park
Kestrel
Kingbird
Lake
Least Sandpiper
Lesser Scaup
Magnolia Warbler
Male
Mallard
Mallards
Marbled Godwit
Merganser
Muskrat
Mute Swan
Northern Cardinal
Northern Flickers
Nuthatch
Oriole
Osprey
Pearly- eyed Thrasher
Pelican
Pied Billed Grebe
Pine Warbler
Plover
Red Bellied Woodpecker
Red Winged Blackbird
Rose- breasted Grosbeak
Sandpiper
Scaup
Sharpshined hawk
Sparrow
Spotted Sandpiper
Spring Birds
Squirrel
Starling
Summer Birds
Swallow
Swan
Tree Swallow
Tropical Mockingbird
Tufted Titmouse
Turtle
Virgina Rail
Warbler
White- breasted Nuthatch
White- cheeked Pintail
White- throated Sparrow
Wild Turkeys
Winter Birds
Wood Ducks
Woodchuck
Woodpecker
Yellow Bellied Sapsucker
Yellow Warbler
birdfeeder
birdhouse
nature scenes
safflower seed
suet feeder
video

Birding Essentials

Osprey at Lake Nelson

Great Blue Heron at Lake Nelson

Tufted Titmouse standing on a suet feeder

White-breasted Nuthatch

Carolina Wren

There's something about a red head

Northern Mockingbird by misseymarie from Butler, N...

Catbird

Yellow Warbler

Great Egret Fishing

About us
For those of you visiting this site who do not know us, we thought we would offer a brief explanation of how it all happened. We have lived in several different states, including Connecticut, New Hampshire, California, Virginia, and currently New Jersey. The house we rent sits right on a small lake, so we initially saw lots of geese and some mallards, rather mundane yet enjoyable. There seemed to also be an abundance of woodpeckers, and we started putting suet out for them. Mike frequently gets up early, and while working from his desk in the window this past fall, he noticed something other than geese on the lake. At first it started with a Pied-billed grebe, and then we also saw briefly a Wood Duck or two, a few Ring-necked ducks, Bufflhead, and then the gorgeous Hooded Mergansers. Well, we’ve fed birds before at other homes, but we’ve never lived on water, and we were especially fascinated by the beauty of the Hooded Mergansers. We have two grown daughters and a son-in-law who still live in California (lucky kids) and family sprinkled around Connecticut, and we were constantly e-mailing them pictures of the birds and ducks, so we decided it would just be easier to put them up on the web to share. We are not real die-hard birders, and we have no formal photography training. The binoculars and camera we use are shown above. We’re just a couple who is enjoying the birds and waterfowl of their own backyard and wanted to share them. So, you may find more professional pictures somewhere else, but we hope you enjoy our site as well.
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