Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

Mute Swan


Snow Geese


Hooded Mergansers


Coming in for a landing!


Snow Goose fly-by


Barn Owl sleeping in its box


Male Ruddy Duck close-up

Fort Tilden

Early spring flowers

A day on the beach.... in February

Actually, it wasn't that cold. Here are some pictures from Sandy Hook:














I didn't notice this Long-Tailed Duck amongst all the seagulls, but once it saw me and took off, I managed to get this pretty good picture of it in flight up close:



So a seagull and a Great Cormorant were sitting together next to a sandbar...


This one is actually from Jones Beach - a flock of Snow Buntings doing their thing in the sun:

Bald Eagle Update

Here are sharper versions of a few of the Bald Eagles pictures posted previously:

Adult:


Juvenile:

Bird Portraits

An evil American Coot:


A flegmatic Tricolored Heron:


Relaxing Black Vultures:


A shy American Wigeon (look at those knife-sharp featuers!):


A gregarious American Wigeon:


A lonely Greater Black-backed Gull:


An observing Mallard:


A smiling Bufflehead:

Bayonne Park

Some pictures from an early morning trip to the Hackensack River-facing park in Bayonne:

An invasion of Brant Geese:




Brant Goose portrait:


Smooth take-off:


Nice hat!


Relaxing on the lake:



Inspecting the port: