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.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Downy Woodpecker Video

This woodpecker let me use the flash and didn't fly away. The pictures are high quality so you can click on them to see every feather. We probably have posted enough downy woodpecker pictures, so we've moved on to videos. See Downy Woodpecker Video (Quicktime)

Labels: Downy Woodpecker, Spring Birds, suet feeder, video, Woodpecker

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Two Downy Woodpeckers at the suet feeder

Labels: Downy Woodpecker, Spring Birds, suet feeder, Woodpecker

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and Woodpecker

The sapsucker actually had a lot of company in this tree today. At one point there were three other woodpeckers. They were never all close enough for me to get a good shot, but at least I got these two together. I am not sure if the woodpecker is a hairy or downy, but it is a female since there is no red on the head. My guess is it's a hairy based on the size of the bill.

Labels: Winter Birds, Woodpecker, Yellow Bellied Sapsucker

Saturday, February 16, 2008

A Downy Woodpecker

Labels: Downy Woodpecker, Winter Birds, Woodpecker

Mr. & Mrs. Spectacular

This pair of Red Bellied Woodpeckers came by the morning of the great backyard bird count.

Labels: Red Bellied Woodpecker, Winter Birds, Woodpecker

Red Bellied Woodpecker

Labels: feeder, Red Bellied Woodpecker, Winter Birds, Woodpecker

Birding Essentials

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

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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