Anna's Hummingbird: Cape Cod

Hummingbird

Cape Cod: Common Eider

Common Eider
The common Eider was the only addition to our life lists during our Cape Cod vacation.

Cape Cod Birds

Green Heron

Eastern Kingbird

Cedar Waxwing


We took a short vacation to Cape Cod. We mainly enjoyed the beaches and some nightlife, but went birding at Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. It's a nice place but our schedule didn't permit us to be there during the best birding times.

Cape Cod: Female Baltimore Oriole

Female Baltimore Oriole

Cape Cod: American Oystercatchers in flight

American Oystercatchers in flight

Cape Cod Vacation

 
Jersey Shore: Point Pleasant

North Beach, Chatham, MA (Cape Cod)


It may be all the years we spent in California, but we just don't find most of the Jersey shore to be pleasant. This year, we decided to take a short trip to Cape Cod to relax. Our hotel offered day trips to a beach accessible only by boat that gave us the peace and quiet we were looking for, interrupted only by the barking of gray seals.

Photo by Marilyn- Sparta, NJ: House Sparrow Nest??

These chicks hatched from very small light blue eggs with brown speckles about 10 days ago.
My 8 year old son discovered the nest in a hanging fern on our porch as he took it down to water it... What a surprise! Wonder when they will start to fledge?

Royal tern: Photo by Rob

 

Royal tern at Edwin B. Forsythe NWR.