The recent day trip to Brigantine yielded my first photos of the
Gull-billed Tern, a regular but uncommon summer resident in Forsythe NWR ...
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| Gull-billed Tern |
Forster's Terns were not very cooperative as they fished the channels, usually choosing to give me backlight or their backside, but this one grabbed a worm out of the mud and I grabbed a photo ...
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| Forster's Tern |
The bubbling energy of wrens always engages me, none more so than the
Marsh Wren. Notice that this one is wearing jewelry ...
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| Marsh Wren |
Wrens are "troglodytes" - cave dwellers. There were at least two newly made "caves" in the vicinity of the singing male ...
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| Marsh Wren nest |
I wonder why this hen Mallard had only one duckling following her. Did her eggs not hatch? Had a predator taken eggs? Or had predators taken the young ducklings?
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| Mallard hen with her lone duckling |
Willets are common nesting shorebirds along the coast, their "pee-will-willet" carrying over the marsh grasses ...
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| Willet |
In a post early this spring, I said that one goal for this season was to capture the
Red-winged Blackbird showing his epaulets in all their glory. This gentleman cooperated magnificently ...
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| Red-winged Blackbird |
Good birding!!
