Bobolinks at Hoffman Park, Union NJ

Inspired by the reports of bobolinks and a few hours of nice weather, we took a trip to Hoffman Park in Union. Upon pulling into the park, we heard and then saw a male bobolink. We got some good looks and photos. We could have just turned around having accomplished our mission, but we stayed awhile longer and then encountered a few more bobolinks including a female. We also saw a cedar waxwing, a phoebe, a brown-headed cowbird and a yellow warbler (below).

Dauphin Island

Yellow Warbler Rose-breasted Grosbeak Scarlet Tanager   Egret Taking Off   

Here are a few more photos from Dauphin Island. We've seen all of these in NJ, but it was great to see them all in one day.

Neighborhood Birds

Orchard Oriole

Yellow Warbler

Chickadee
We birded our neighborhood park this morning and ran into a few migrating birds.

More Birds from Cape May

Brown Thrasher


Yellow Warbler


Common Yellowthroat (female)


Hummingbird



Northern Parula


American Redstart (female)


Unidentified Wet Bird


Black and White Warbler

Female Yellow Warbler

Antigua: Yellow Warbler

Most warblers spend the winter in the warmer climates and come north for the summers. This yellow warbler decided it wasn't worth coming back north. Sometimes, we think about staying in the Caribbean ourselves.

Birding Liberty State Park

 

We decided to try Liberty State Park for migrating Warblers. We are glad we did. The Scarlet Tanager was the highlight, but we also got a pretty good photo of the American Redstart and saw a Wilson's Warbler for the first time.



American Redstart


Yellow Warbler


Least Flycatcher


Wilson's Warbler


Northern Parula


Starling eating worms

Yellow Warbler at the celery farm

Last year, we went to the Celery Farm in Allendale, NJ and saw a yellow warbler in a small tree among cattails. When we reached that tree today, we paused for a few seconds and a yellow warbler flew into the same tree.

Later another birder pointed out the yellow warbler's nest in a nearby tree.

Birds from Tallman Mountain State Park, Piermont NY

Baltimore Oriole

Carolina Wren


Song Sparrow

 

Female Red Winged Blackbird



When we stayed in Piermont, NY our B&B was close to the entrance of Tallman Mountain State Park. We took a brief walk and encountered a few birds. There was quite a bit of singing with the wren, the oriole, red-winged blackbirds and song sparrow competing for our attention.

The yellow warbler got our attention by its color not song.

Yellow Warbler

Birds from the Celery Farm in Allendale

We took a quick trip to the Celery Farm in Allendale, NJ. The yellow warbler was best photo that we got.

We spotted some wood ducks including what appeared to be an immature male just showing some adult colors.

 

 

Egret

Swans and Ducks

Cormorant

Baby Catbird

Swallow

Wren

Yellow Warbler from Tuckahoo

 

 

We took a long drive from Cape May to the Tuckahoo Wild Life Management area and just got some photos of one very small warbler: the yellow warbler. There was no waterfowl to be found. Mike thinks Chris should stop carrying on about all the things we didn't see because she got a nice picture of the swan in flight (and running on the water during take off).