The Birdchaser

So pigeons and doves are known to do something a little odd--after spying their food, instead of just snatching it up off the ground, the...

Many of us keep year lists of all the birds we see each year--either in general, or for some specific location like North America, our home ...

Here in the Mid-Atlantic States, Richardson's Cackling Goose is a rare but regular winter visitor, usually found in flocks of the larger...

  Yesterday I got a couple of shots of these apparent Snow x Canada Goose Hybrids at Assiscong Marsh, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.  No...

On Tuesday I spotted this neck-collared Canada Goose at Amwell Lake in southern Hunterdon County.  I've submitted the band reading t...

As a birder dedicated to getting my 20 Bird Minimum Daily Requirement , I'm getting pretty good at finding 20 species close to home or...

OK, it was just a matter of time once I put up the new bird feeder last month.  This afternoon I watched a squirrel finally figure out how t...

Snow Bunting at Spruce Run Recreation Area near Clinton, NJ (13 Feb 2012).  Digiscoped with Canon PwerShot SD780 IS Digital Elph and Bausc...

A couple weeks ago I saw a Canada Goose with a yellow neck collar in Flemington, NJ.  I submitted the sighting to the bird banding lab ,...

This morning I got a text with a report of an immature Ross's Goose on Good Springs Road north of Asbury in Warren County, 20 minutes...

Keep on scanning, keep on scanning...there are Dovekie everywhere!  Early Saturday morning, operating on only an hour and a half of slee...

In 2012 I'm committed to several birding goals, including getting my 20 Bird Minimum Daily Requirement as well as posting at least one ...

I was excited this morning to see an advance reading copy of Jon Young's new What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the...

For birders, HOMEs (pronounced  ho-mees) are Hooded Mergansers.  I've got some HOMEs I've been seeing regularly at  Demott Pond , a...

As I pulled up to the Common Chaffinch stakeout in Union Township, NJ this morning, the cul-de-sac was filled with cars.  I knew it was goi...

This morning in the wind and subfreezing temperatures I was able to get a short look at the Common Chaffinch coming to a feeder in Union T...

Here an apparent adult Kumlien's (Iceland) Gull that I photographed at Spruce Run Reservoir, Hunterdon, NJ on December 28.  Note especi...

When is a baby duck not a baby duck?  In this case, the small duck in this picture is not a baby Mallard, but a Call Duck , a small dome...

In addition to staying in good birding shape by making sure I get my 20 Bird Minimum Daily Requirement , this year I'm also going to tak...

2011 started a bit slow for me, and I only had four trips that required air travel--2 weeks and 2000 miles driving the entire coast of  Texa...