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.

Friday, November 27, 2009

Roadrunner

Labels: California, Palm Springs, Roadrunner

DEBRA said...: I just saw a roadrunner in the road while I was driving. LOL I was rather surprised I didn't know we had roadrunners in New Jersey. I'm assuming this was a new phenomenon as I've never known them to be in New Jersey?; July 30, 2018 at 10:05 AM
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Unknown said...: I saw this post of a roadrunner in NJ and it brought back childhood memories! In the 1960’s my parents had a summer home in Forked River, NJ and as a small child I remember watching them with my father run down the road outside of our house. Back then it was mostly woods, very few houses. I haven’t been able to find documentation of them occurring there but they certainly were there back then. So, glad to see you found one. I’m wondering where in NJ you saw it? No you are not crazy!
p. cannon; October 27, 2022 at 6:35 PM
Anonymous said...: I saw one in the Pine Barrens, but no one believes me.; January 8, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Anonymous said...: I almost hit one today with my car!! Never knew jersey had them. So glad I miss it; November 29, 2024 at 5:11 PM

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

California Birds: Too much rain in NJ

The rain is dampening any birding plans. We do have daily duck visitors, but how many duck photos can we post? Here are two photos from CA, an old one of a roadrunner in our backyard when we lived there, and a recent one of an unidentified bird in Bolsa Chica.

Labels: California, Roadrunner

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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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