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.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Juvenile Double-crested Cormorant

We took these cormorant photos over the weekend. He was swimming by Saturday and standing on a branch on Sunday. The juvenile Double-crested Cormorant has a lighter color, particularly on the chest than the adults. We can't see any crests on the head, but our bird book indicates only the double-crested gets this light.

Labels: Cormorant, Double-crested Cormorant, Spring Birds

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Cormorant Soaking up the Sun with Turtles

I'm gonna soak up the sun
While it's still free
I'm gonna soak up the sun
Before it goes out on me

Labels: Cormorant, Spring Birds, Turtle

Sunday, April 6, 2008

First Cormorant

The cormorants were the first diving birds we saw in the summer when we moved in. We haven't seen any since winter. Two returned today. We'll get better pictures someday, but this is our first.

Labels: Cormorant, Spring Birds

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Chickadee with a seed at the feeder

Tufted Titmouse

Turtle in the Sun

Muskrat

Can you spot the night herons?

Eastern Kingbird

Two downy woodpeckers

Another Night Heron Picture

Black-crowned Night Heron

Spotted Sandpiper

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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 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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NJ Bird Photos: Birds of New Jersey

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Juvenile Double-crested Cormorant

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Cormorant Soaking up the Sun with Turtles

Sunday, April 6, 2008

First Cormorant

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