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May Birds at Troy Meadows (Click on the photo for a larger image) It is an absolute pleasure to witness the continued, growing interest in the bird life of Troy Meadows in Morris County. Neglected for years except for devoted … Continue reading →

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck at Great Swamp NWR (Click on the photo for a larger image.) Birders know that rainy days often bring more than precipitation. Chuck Hantis, a frequent observer at the Great Swamp NWR and an excellent photographer, was driving towards … Continue reading →

Little Blue Heron at Great Swamp NWR (Click on the photo for a larger image). Little Blue Herons are a mostly annual visitor to Morris County but often with only one or two reports. 2014 was the once-in-a-life exception as … Continue reading →

(Click on the photo to view a larger image) Morris County is bereft of shorebird habitat, as anyone familiar with the area knows. Suitable sites change season by season, year by year, so when one finds more that two species … Continue reading →

Two Red-necked Grebes at Boonton Reservoir The first Red-necked Grebes in Morris County in 2017 and the only ones at Boonton Reservoir since April 2015 appeared on a rainy Saturday, this morning. The grebes were at the north end of … Continue reading →

Trumpeter Swan at Lake Parsippany Morris County’s first accepted record for Trumpeter Swan was in June of 2016 (i.e. considered to be of genuine wild origin). See the link here. On Sunday, April 9, Californian Ben Newhouse photographed a dark-billed swan … Continue reading →

(Click on the photo for a larger image.) Catherine Longi had a feeder bird to remember on March 31 as an adult male Yellow-headed Blackbird visited her yard in Hillsborough for one day. There are scant reports of this species … Continue reading →

(Click on the photo for a larger image) Much is not expected from February. Winter continues. Snow, ice and freezing temperatures are likely. In this writer’s life-long New Jersey experience, February often offers a climate tease of what will come during … Continue reading →

The following frigid temperature greeted north New Jersey this morning: This was after a gusty, blustery, brutally cold Saturday with the temperature never getting above the freezing mark and feeling much colder. Despite the cold, and besides getting a photograph … Continue reading →