Thompson's Beach, near Heislerville in southern New Jersey, provides good opportunities for many coastal wetland birds - e.g. rails, shorebirds at low tide.
Often it is also a place of splendid solitude and quiet, interrupted only by the irrepressible marsh rascal ...
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| Marsh Wren |
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| Marsh Wren |
Barn Swallows swirled about in courtship ritual ...
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| Barn Swallow |
This gentleman's mate was incubating on a nearby nest platform. I photographed him last year with a partially consumed fish in his talons, and again this year - a sign that he will again provide well for his young when they hatch ...
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| Osprey |
