Birds & Words

The month began with dozens of American Golden Plovers on a sod farm in Burlco and ended with a semi-nemesis bird for Ocean County--2 Pilea...

 I went down to the inlet beach at Great Bay Blvd specifically to look for Nelson's Sparrows , a tricky bird to both find and identify. ...

I met Bob Auster down at Brig this morning to see what the tail end of migration might turn up. Aside from the expected sandpipers and wader...

When I first saw this sticker on the back window of a truck at Wells Mills Park, I chuckled. Then I felt uneasy because I couldn't tell ...

Lincoln's Sparrow (right) with White-throated Sparrow Suddenly it was autumn this afternoon on Spizzle Creek.  Shari & I went on Sc...

King Eider Back in June there was a lot of winter waterfowl still lingering in the county and now that summer is almost over at least one s...

 "Sod-farming" is not my favorite kind of birding. Standing on the verge of a busy road scoping dirt while tractor trailers zoom b...