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.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Anna's Hummingbird: Cape Cod

Hummingbird

Labels: Anna's Hummingbird, Cape Cod

Anonymous said...: Beautiful shot. Great colors, nice pose, and very detailed.; September 3, 2011 at 9:07 AM

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posted by Chris and Mike at 9:24 AM

Cape Cod: Common Eider

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

Labels: Cape Cod, Common Eider

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posted by Chris and Mike at 9:13 AM

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.

Labels: Black-throated Green Warbler, Cape Cod, Cedar Waxwing, Eastern Kingbird

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posted by Chris and Mike at 9:06 AM

Cape Cod: Female Baltimore Oriole

Female Baltimore Oriole

Labels: Baltimore Oriole, Cape Cod

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posted by Chris and Mike at 9:04 AM

Cape Cod: American Oystercatchers in flight

American Oystercatchers in flight

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posted by Chris and Mike at 9:02 AM

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.

Labels: Cape Cod, Seal

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posted by Chris and Mike at 1:08 AM

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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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