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.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

The Last of the California Photos

Osprey carrying a fish

Say's Phoebe

Black Phoebe

California Towhee

Bushtit

Labels: Black Phoebe, Bushtit, California, California Towhee, Osprey, Say's Phoebe

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Northern Mockingbird and California Towhee

We just got back from a trip to Los Angeles helping our daughter and son-in-law move into their new house. Here's a photo of a mockingbird in their lemon tree and a towhee in some shrubs.

California Towhee

Labels: California, California Towhee, Northern Mockingbird

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Chestnut-backed Chickadee and California Towhee

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

I stopped at Coyote Point Recreation Area in San Mateo, California on the way to the San Francisco airport. For me, the highlight was seeing a Chestnut-backed Chickadee particularly because I didn't know there were Chestnut-backed Chickadees. I also saw my first California Towhee, but I prefer the spotted or eastern towhees.

California Towhee

Labels: California Towhee, Chestnut-backed Chickadee

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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 New Jersey. The house we rented 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 family sprinkled around the US, 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.

We moved back to California in June 2012, and we've started a new blog, California Birds. Here are our most recent California photos.

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