Sunday, June 17, 2012

Adios and Vaya con Dios

Black-crowned night heron
Black-crowned night heron

White-breasted nuthatch
White-breasted nuthatch

Baby red-bellied Woodpecker
Fledgling Red-bellied Woodpecker

Northern Flicker
Northern Flicker

Chickadee
Carolina Chickadee

Northern Cardinal
Northern Cardinal

We are joyfully moving back to California at the end of the month and are busy preparing, so this is likely to be our last post (unless we see the flicker babies that the mother is caring for). The weather was nice yesterday so we had dinner outside, and we were happy that many of our bird friends came by as if to wish us farewell.

We have started a new blog, California Birds. Right now, it mostly contains photos from our trips to California, but we'll post occasionally once we get settled.

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Blogger Mark said...

Good luck! Your blog has been helpful for id-ing birds from real-world images. Thanks, Mark
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June 17, 2012 at 9:31 AM  
Anonymous Warren said...

Hi Mike and Chris, Hope you like your new home in CA. Here in Lake Nelson we have mostly have recovered from the effects of strorm Sandy. It took town the huge oak tree anf it took off our electric meter before covering our front yard. I have a "pet" cardinal in the neighborhood. The red male oftan shows up when I wistle its song! Regards, Warren atat wfrazer36@yahoo.com

April 23, 2013 at 8:55 PM  
Blogger Chris and Mike said...

Hi warren. Nice to hear from you! That sounds fun about your friendly cardinal. It's a beautiful bird that we don't get here. We are enjoying our backyard full of birds right now - spring is early and so pleasant here.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi I'm Tony DeStefano, an Iraqi Freedom combat veteran with severe PTS, I never use the D... it's demeaning for us because we were not "disordered " we were wounded thank u very much! Here are some lovely photos of my feeders activity from my deck in Hackettstown, in NW NJ: if I can post them that is... I have tufted titmouse, downy and red bellied woodpecker, the ubiquitous blue jay and cardinal white breasted nuthatch, warbler nest in a gourd with babies, house finch, the black headed cowbirds (unfortunately ), I believe it is a nightingale... I feed them the oily sunflower seeds, the mixed seed with mealworms, some suet, mixed berry seeds, and I put out a plant and hummingbird feeder with zero success. Otherwise I am feeling pretty good about my efforts! And far less anxiety over war trauma!

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Blogger Chris said...

Tony,
We are glad you found birding. We have moved away from New Jersey 10 years ago and no longer maintain this website, so there is no way to upload additional photos

I suggest you use Instagram to post your photos. It will actually get a much wider audience than this website anyway.

June 14, 2024 at 11:35 PM  
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

White-breasted Nuthatch with a sunflower seed

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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Bathing Beauties: Chickadee, Nuthatch, Titmouse

Chickadee

Nuthatch

Titmouse/ 

On Saturday we had more than the usual number of birds visiting our backyard water feature.  They are so entertaining, and it really delights us.  However, we promise to leave our backyard when the fall migration picks up, so hopefully we'll have more varied photographs to entertain our blog visitors. We've been meaning to go to Cape May, Brigantine, the Meadowlands, maybe even Dauphin Island, so check back soon to see what we encounter.

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Monday, August 2, 2010

Summer Backyard Birds in New Jersey

Robin
Robin

Nuthatch
Nuthatch

Chickadee
Chickadee

One very hot day, we caught this robin taking a bath in our waterfall.

The nuthatches have been very active on the tree trunks but rarely are found on the ground.

We've had quite a few chickadees. They also enjoy the waterfall, but they have also been coming to the tree closest to our deck.

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Sunday, July 25, 2010

White Breasted Nuthatch

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Sunday, January 31, 2010

White-breasted Nuthatch

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Sunday, November 8, 2009

Backyard Birds: Yellow Bellied Sapsucker and White-breasted Nuthatch

Yellow Bellied Sapsucker
Yellow Bellied Sapsucker

White-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch


These birds are more frequent visitors to our yard with the cooler weather.

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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Backyard Nuthatch

White-breasted Nuthatch 


With the fall migration, the White-breasted Nuthatches have become common in our yard. The brown creeper is not far behind.

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Saturday, September 5, 2009

A visit to Rutgers Gardens

Here are some bird photos we took at Rutgers Gardens off Ryders Lane on Rutgers Cook Campus. There were more flowers than birds this morning, but we are always happy to see a waxwing.

Hummingbird
Hummingbird

Cedar Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing

Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch

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Sunday, February 15, 2009

White-breasted Nuthatch

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Quite the acrobats, the nuthatches are.

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Saturday, January 31, 2009

White-breasted Nuthatch Hiding a Seed

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Nuthatch
The Stokes Field Guide to Birds says this about the Nuthatch. "Nuthatches are best known for their habit of storing food in bark crevices and their ability to move head first down trees enabling them to find food that "right-side up" birds like Woodpeckers might miss." That's exactly what we caught him doing in these pictures.

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Friday, January 2, 2009

Winter Birds at the Bird Bath

Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch

Mockingbird
Northern Mockingbird


Here's are photos of some winter birds having a drink at our new heated bird bath.

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Saturday, September 27, 2008

White-breasted Nuthatch

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White-breasted Nuthatch

We like nuthatches.

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Sunday, August 3, 2008

Nuthatch

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The white-breasted nutcatches were common visitors last winter but we didn't see any this spring. A few have just returned to the area.

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Sunday, March 2, 2008

White-breasted Nuthatch

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