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| Blue Jay |
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| Blue Jay |
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| Downy Woodpecker |
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| Downy Woodpecker |
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| Downy Woodpecker |
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| Downy Woodpecker |
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| Northern Cardinal a bit ratty after a couple of broods! |
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| White-breasted Nuthatch |
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| White-breasted Nuthatch |
Friday, September 30, 2022
My Lens is too long.
Just for a giggle I tweaked my West Side bird table setup yesterday. The
regulars found it to their liking and after I filled it up again this morning I
got set up around lunchtime as it was cloudy but quite bright. I decided to try
out my 800mm for the first time at the setup. I never thought I hear myself say
it but my lens was too long! I struggled to get all of a Blue Jay in the frame.
Sunday, September 25, 2022
My Right Foot
This is my foot sitting on a frigid rock in a 20 mph NW wind in 54F (12C) temperatures. I wasn’t prepared even though I knew it was going to be chilly. I had on jeans, a long sleeved merino woolen t-shirt, a wind proof outer jacket with fleece lining. I had a wooly hat to keep my head warm. Who would have thought you’d need gloves in September? Not me. My little fingers were icicles. I was hoping for some shots of hawks and was waving around my 800mm trying to find the camera buttons with frost bitten fingers. I didn't last long.🥶
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| Waggoner's Gap |
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| Sharp-shinned Hawk |
Thursday, September 15, 2022
No flies on me
In all of my trips to the New Jersey coast or the Delaware Bay recently I have been plagued with those nasty green headed blood sucking flies. Not yesterday.
I started the day at Brigantine a.k.a. Edwin B Forsythe NWR.
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| Brigantine with Atlantic City in the background |
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| Brigantine |
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| Brigantine |
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| Black Skimmers |
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| Black Skimmer |
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| Black-crowned Night Heron bedding down for the day. |
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| Forster's Tern |
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| Forster's Tern |
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| Great Blue Heron |
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| Northern Harrier |
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| Osprey |
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| Osprey |
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| Red Fox |
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| Red Fox |
I then drove down to Cape May to the Hawkwatch Platform at the Lighthouse.
I took loads of pictures but the birds were really high and as it was hot
there was lots of heat distortion.
Not a bad haul of birds though, I didn't see the whole list but a good selection
of them.
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| Cape May Hawkwatch Platform |
After several hours there I decided to head home via Delaware with a few seabirds and a fair wind and a bit of luck.
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| Outback on the Atlantic Ocean |
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| Great Black-backed Gull |
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| Laughing Gull |
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| Brown Pelican on the Lewes Breakwater |
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