The Birdchaser

Last night I dreamed I was in a swamp and almost put my hand on a Cottonmouth.  I should have known it was going to be one of those days. ...

Snow Goose, Spruce Run, Hunterdon County, NJ, 22 May 2012 Most Snow Geese left New Jersey months ago, this young bird apparently isn...

Digiscoped with HTC Incredible phone through Kowa 883 scope. This morning I found this young Double-crested Cormorant at Spruce Run....

The Bobolinks are back at Hoffman Park just up the road from my house.  The males are chasing each other and the females across the larg...

Everybody's gonna have a good time! I watched this House Wren building a nest in a box at Voorhees State Park in Hunterdon County, NJ...

It started raining about 11pm last night, so I suspected any migrants passing through might get knocked down and headed out early to Spruce ...

OK, can you tell what it is?  The bird, not the trash :-) Here's a better shot. Here's a slightly fuzzy shot of the b...

This morning on the way to work I watched a female Wood Duck checking out a nest box at Assiscong Marsh in Flemington, NJ.  The action was o...

Just one more sign of spring, a drake Blue-winged Teal has spent the last few days at Assiscong Marsh. Not the greatest shot, but co...

While hanging out at home today I noticed a small pale bird in the bushes, and it soon came in to my patio--my first Chipping Sparrow of the...

I headed out this morning to run some errands and of course I had to get my 20 bird MDR.  After hitting Spruce Run on the way to return a ...

Just got this certificate from the U.S.G.S. Banding Lab with details on a Canada Goose I saw last month. So this bird was banded two ...

Dr. Suess' Swomee-Swans have exhibited some interesting changes since they first appeared in the 1971 children's book The Lorax .  I...

In February I continued my 1 a day eBird challenge by submitting 90 eBird checklists, including at least one for every day. I also got my...

I'm at home today and missing church due to a cold, so thought I'd post a quick message from Spencer W. Kimball  (1895-1985), w...

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...