While doing some digiscoping around Cape May, I found a cooperative flock of yellow-rumped warblers. These are such a challenge to photograph and finding a big flock of butter butts is always a good practice. I remember when I first started digiscoping, I thought warblers would be impossible. But after lots of practice, it is [ Read More ]
It’s Skywatch Friday again! I think I may actually be getting it in on time this week. I’m very confused because it’s called Skywatch Friday, but apparently, it begins on Thursday where I live. This is a view of one of my favorite places that I’ve been blogging about this week. It’s called The Meadows [ Read More ]
I think my favorite place at Cape May is The Meadows, an area managed by The Nature Conservancy on the southwest tip of the Cape May peninsula. It has dunes, fresh and saltwater marshes, meadows, ponds, and a mile of beachfront. The lighting can be beautiful and during migration, you can get some great bird [ Read More ]
I digiscoped so many images this weekend, I’m having trouble organizing them into blog entries. I found a most cooperative northern mockingbird at Higbee Beach. I know for some of you southern readers that a mocking bird is not the most exciting bird on the planet, but for a Minnesota girl, getting a chance to [ Read More ]
I dedicate the following video to Hasty Brook and hope that she got a Carolina wren before she left Cape May to return to Minnesota. A posse of bird bloggers gathered again for the Cape May Autumn Weekend and since I ended up working the festival, I was able to see them. They had gathered [ Read More ]
Check out this tricked out Swarovski Spotting Scope someone was toting at the Cape May Autumn Weekend. He used surf board stickers:
Pintails, I love pintail ducks! So, I’m in New Jersey at the moment for Cape May’s Autumn Weekend – THE Bird Show. I’m filling in at the Swarovski booth for my buddy Clay (who is forced to go to Austria). I still have to pinch myself sometimes. Teenage Sharon from years ago dreamed of things [ Read More ]
On the last day of the Cape May Autumn Weekend, a group of bird bloggers came to the birdJam booth and said they were going to go look at skimmers just down the street. I asked if I could come and they welcomed me along. What could be so great about skimmers some of you [ Read More ]
I started writing this entry last night, and completely fell asleep while typing it–completely slumped over on the couch. Thank goodness I didn’t drool on the keyboard. Ack! I birded this place Sunday, how is it now Thursday that I’m finally blogging it? Ah well, at least I’m getting to it now. When we watched [ Read More ]
I’m going through photos that I took at Cape May for coming blog entries and found what may be the first ever documented case of a Zombie Gadwall attempting to suck out the brains of a teal:
