Birding New Jersey!

Now that everyone has arrived, the main event started up officially this evening with a welcome and a pleasant dinner together here at Birds Eye View. But we early arrivals took full advantage of...

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Right on the shores of Crooked Tree Lagoon, Birds Eye View will be our comfortable home base for the next couple of days. Toni and I arrived mid-afternoon, leaving us time for a little birding be...

http://birdaz.com/blog/2024/03/02/crooked-tree-and-birds-eye-view-lodge/

In my experience, the handsome gadwall is not a species given to much variation or aberration in color. This hen’s patchy white head and face was obviously no deterrent to her suitor.

http://birdaz.com/blog/2024/03/01/a-gadwall-blonde/

At Barnegat Light, on our Montclair Bird Club visit February 26. There are few places on the US east coast where harlequin ducks can be found so easily. And much the same goes for another haunter...

http://birdaz.com/blog/2024/02/26/histrionic-ducks/

Noisy and colorful, the eastern towhee appears to have been a well-known bird to early European settlers in North America. Indeed, this big and conspicuous sparrow was the subject of one of the f...

http://birdaz.com/blog/2023/09/02/chitterwings/

Joan, Sally, and I met for a quick walk at Point Breeze this morning, hoping that the evening’s northerly winds had brought in some migrants. There were goodly numbers of blue jays and yellow-s...

http://birdaz.com/blog/2023/08/31/at-the-type-locality/

The past 24 hours have been pretty dismal here in northern New Jersey, with oppresive humidity relieved only by spells of steady drizzle. The rain finally stopped midday, though, and southwest wi...

http://birdaz.com/blog/2023/08/25/cooper-hawk/

The red osier dogwood, with its fiery twigs and creamy drupes, has long been one of my favorite trees—and has alway ranked high on the list of those preferred by frugivorous birds. And not just...

http://birdaz.com/blog/2023/08/23/dogwood-afternoon/

I’ve mused elsewhere on the unsatisfying explications given the “official” English name of Spiza americana, that cheerful black-throated wire-singer of the American Midwest. “Dickcissel,�...

http://birdaz.com/blog/2023/08/20/the-judas-bird/

As always, I have a full schedule of VENT tours coming up in the next months, and I hope you’ll take a look at each of them. Clicking on the links should take you to pages with full information...

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