NJ Bird Photos: Birds of New Jersey

Info & pictures of common New Jersey birds: the woodpecker, cardinal, king fisher, warbler, robin, tufted titmouse, finch, mallard, cormorant, baby ducks, grebe, goose, cat bird, sapsucker, northern flicker, chickadee, merganser, hawk, heron, hairy woodpecker & goldfinch plus muskrat, groundhog & beaver. Many photos were taken at Lake Nelson in Piscataway, NJ and others in NJ bird spots: Cape May, the Meadowlands, and Sandy Hook or vacations in Florida, California and the Caribbean.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Double-crested Cormorant returns to Lake Nelson

Double-crested Cormorant

Double-crested Cormorant

A Double-crested Cormorant returned last week. Today, he landed near us when we were sitting out on the dock.

Labels: Cormorant, Double-crested Cormorant, Spring Birds

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posted by Chris and Mike at 7:59 PM Links to this post

Spring Birds

American Goldfinch

American Goldfinch

Red Winged Blackbird

Red Winged Blackbird

Eastern Phoebe

Eastern Phoebe

Eastern Bluebird

Eastern Bluebird

Labels: American Goldfinch, Eastern Bluebird, Eastern Phoebe, Red Winged Blackbird, Spring Birds

Anonymous said...: These are great bird pictures. I never knew there were so many great birds on Lake Nelson and I grew up in Piscataway. This past weekend I was at the Cape May Zoo and I was trying to identify a black bird. It looks like the red-winged blackbird but the red feathers were only visible when the birds spread their wings. Do you know what type of bird it was if it is not the red-winged blackbird?; April 14, 2009 7:03 PM

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Our favorite NJ bird photos include Hairy Woodpeckers, the Black Crowned Night Heron, King Fisher, Bluebird, Cedar waxwing, 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.

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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 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. 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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