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.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Birds of Island Beach State Park

We went to Island Beach State Park. It was a better day for the beach than birding, but here are a few photos. The top is female blue grosbeak (we think). The middle photo is a seagull eating a crab. Chris was traumatized by a crab as a child, so she thinks it's fine for the seagull to kill them. The bottom picture is a rather rumpled mockingbird.

Labels: Blue Grosbeak, Island Beach State Park, Northern Mockingbird, Seagull, Summer Birds

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posted by Chris and Mike at 8:00 AM

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Osprey at Island Beach State Park

Here are two photos of Osprey nesting at Island Beach State Park.

Labels: Island Beach State Park, Osprey, Summer Birds

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posted by Chris and Mike at 7:52 PM

Egret at Island Beach State Park

Here is a photo of an egret taken on the bay side of Island Beach State Park on the Jersey shore.

Labels: Great Egret, Heron, Island Beach State Park, Summer Birds

msprius said...: I love the picture of the egret. I would like to have your permission to use this photo as the inspiration for an art quilt. Please let me know if this is acceptable to you. This is not a money making project but may be shown at various venues in the US.; November 21, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Chris and Mike said...: Yes, feel free.

Tell us where it's displayed and we may go see it.; November 22, 2009 at 8:22 AM
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posted by Chris and Mike at 7:49 PM

Female Oriole

Labels: Island Beach State Park, Oriole, Summer Birds

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posted by Chris and Mike at 6:29 PM

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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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