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.
Labels: Common Mergansers, Mute Swan, Swan, Winter Birds
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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Hi Chris....could you please tell me if Lake Nelson is a private Lake or can anyone come there and walk around ? I went on Google Earth and it looks to me there are no trails to walk. Could you please tell me if that is the case. I see your pictures on NJ Birds all the time. I live around the Princeton area and would like to come up ans see the lake sometime soon.
Thanks, Carol Simmons
Your photos are really very good. Thanks!
Only a small part of Lake Nelson is accessible on a trail that leads from Lakeside Dr N and Nelson Ave. It's only about 200 feet or so and has a short bridge over a creek just below the dam. The rest of the lake is surrounded by homes whose yards are on the lake with no trail around the lake.
I don't mean to discourage, but most of the time the lakes has 95% Canada geese and 4.9% mallards. We get an occasional unusual visitor but they rarely stay long. The swan was here for about 30 minutes and we were lucky to spot him. We have a saying that the worst weather brings the best ducks and we think the visitors are just taking refuge while on spring and fall migration.