Daily Archives: February 8, 2012

Synchronized Teal Feeding

Green winged Teal_ Synchronized Feeding Team

In case you missed this photo on the wildnewjersey.tv blog, Bruce Harman was nice enough to share it with us as well.

The photo, taken at Mill Creek Marsh, is called "The Green-winged Teal Synchronized Feeding Team." (Thanks, Bruce!)

Sunday’s Walk, Full List, plus Pix (incl. Orange-crowned)!

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We had a really enjoyable bird walk at DeKorte Park on Sunday.

Not only did we have great birds and great people, 

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but the Marsh Discovery Trail is now open end to end again, which meant more time birding and less time retracing your steps.

In fact some of the best birding of the day was in the Lyndhurst Nature Reserve just off the Transco Trail — including the Orange-crowned Warbler (above), Ruby-crowned Kinglet and Brown Creeper.

A big thank you to Jeff Nicol for providing the photos here, to Denise Farrell and Julie McCall for the bird list that follows, and to all who attended on Sunday.

Full list and more pix follow.  (We apologize for the slightly disjointed list but the blog software has been acting up.)

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