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I had heard some years back that a Beaver was seen at the Celery Farm!
Carp, Beaver, Groundhog, Meercat, Muskrat or Mink?
Which of the above is it? And which two have never been seen at the Celery Farm, although folks often claim to have seen one.
Once on a bright sunny day when the ground was covered with snow and the icicles were long, I watched a Chickadee hovering and drinking the drops from an icicle. Wish i could have captured that moment with a camera!
Latest Column: Birding's Simple Pleasures
On the first morning of summer, several birding-related emails arrived lickety-split -- and inspired a request for you later in this column. * First, a Ramsey birder sent this email to my local nature group: “While in my yard yesterday, I heard multiple Baltimore oriole sounds coming from hi...
Fabulous! GREAT pictures!!
Free eBook on My Recent Ecuador Trip
After a year and a half of planning, I recently spent two weeks in northeast Ecuador, from Quito to the Amazon, and took a few photos along the way -- of lots of birds (Quetzal, Toucan, Macaw, many hummingbirds), giant river otters, caimen, scenics and more. I put them into a free eBook downl...
Fantastic article!!
My Latest Column: Stop Raking Leaves
The Record was nice enough to publish my Op-ed piece on why you might want to think twice before you rake all those leaves. The link is here.
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Monday Morning Mystery 101413
A reader asks for help with this bird ID. I think I know. What do you think it is?
GREAT, Jim!!
Remembering Charlie Mayhood
My latest "Bird Watcher" column for The Record and Herald News is a remembrance of our friend Charlie Mayhood, who died earlier this month. The link is here. (A big thank you to Chris Archer for his illustration of the Big Sit 2004, in England.)
Lysimachia vulgaris
Monday Morning Mystery 081213
Taken at Duke Farms -- what is this?
Garden Loosestrife
Monday Morning Mystery 081213
Taken at Duke Farms -- what is this?
Very cool! Great pics, Patrick!!
Pix of Amazing Moths at the Moth Ball
Virginia Tiger Moth On Wednesday night, we had our second annual Moth Ball at the historic Fell House. Although we did not get any large show-stopping moths aside from a glimpse or two at Mothra, we did get some exquisite moths, a gigundo Cave Cricket and a beautiful Praying Mantis -- plus q...
Zeuzera pyrina - Wood Leopard Moth
Monday Moth Mystery
Here's one of the guys we hope to see at the Moth Ball at the Fell House on Wednesday night. What is it?
Tartarian Honeysuckle (bush)
Monday Morning Mystery 072213
John Pastore writes: "Any idea what these berries are? Saw them at CF, near Phair's pond - size of a small blueberry. "Might make a neat Monday Morning Mystery." Answer tomorrow. Thanks, John!
It is Dun Skipper
Mysteries answered
In honor of this Saturday's Tom Burr Memorial Celery Farm Butterfly Walk, I posted a trifecta of butterfly mysteries taken last month at Duke Farms. Patrick Carney got two of the three right. (Nice going, Patrick; I would have guesses Brwod-winged Skipper, too!) The first guy is a Mourning Cl...
Really great photography and I just looked at your book, its
amazing!!Very beautiful!! The Celery Farm is enchanted, and
you have captured that!!
John Pastore's Amazing Mink Shots!
John Pastore writes: I took the mink challenge, reading that they were difficult to photograph on the CF blog, I figured I would try my hand. Tracking a doe and two fawns along Allendale Brook, when what do you know - a mink. I got a couple of the "mink behind leaves" and "blurry black blo...
Great shots!!!
John Pastore's Amazing Mink Shots!
John Pastore writes: I took the mink challenge, reading that they were difficult to photograph on the CF blog, I figured I would try my hand. Tracking a doe and two fawns along Allendale Brook, when what do you know - a mink. I got a couple of the "mink behind leaves" and "blurry black blo...
Of course it's a moth - see the antennae!
More Moths and More!
Here's this year's set-up of moth lights. Two of them are moth lights from BioQuip --the Mercury vapor light on the left and the ultra-violet "night collecting light" with the bluish light above it. I also use a cfl blacklight and a halogen light. Each of the lights seems to attract admirers,...
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!! I love that!!
John Pastore's CF Bird-sound Video
John Pastore writes: "These are my favorite Celery Farm photos from Spring 2013, set to bird sounds." (Thanks, John!)
Not Mourning Cloak, it's a Skipper??
Monday Morning Mystery 070113
With the annual Tom Burr Memorial Celery Farm Butterfly Walk less than three weeks away, I thought I'd start running some butterfly mysteries. This skipper was taken last month at the Walker Avenue Wetlands in Wayne. What is it? The bigger mystery: How can we be in July already?
Yes, Zabulon!
MMM 061713
Alice Leurck photographed this skipper at the Celery Farm's awesome butterfly garden. What is it? (I know, tough to ID from one photo.) (Thanks, Alice!)
Little Wood Satyr
Monday Morning Mystery 061013
Alice Leurck photographed this guy at Phair's Pond at the CF after our First Satyrday walk. Any idea what it is? (Thanks, Alice!)
Vinca Minor or Periwinkle
Monday Morning Mystery 042213
Purdy little Celery Farm flower -- can you ID it?
Speckled Alder
Monday Morning Mystery 041513
Photographed by the Allendale Brook during the cleanup.
Feather Guard!
Monday Morning Mystery 031113
A reader writes: How to stop a pesky robin from crashing in to our picture window every few seconds for a month. Nothing worked except hanging strips of plastic bag outside of window so the air moved them. I tried everything else. Hopefully, this year we won't be visited, but it happened...
No, I think from the road?? The culvert under Franklin Tpke from one side or the other??
Monday Morning Mystery 030413
Ken Buxton, who helps maintain the Celery Farm Wood Duck housing complex, asks: Where in the Celery Farm is this?
Orchid???
Orchid Talk at Fyke Tonight
“Native Orchids of New Jersey” is speaker Rick Radis' subject at tonight's Fyke meeting at Allendale Borough Hall on Crescent Ave. Here's a description: “Because of its surprisingly wide range of habitats and biodiversity, New Jersey is home to over fifty species of wild orchids, more than ...
Cutting down the Meadow or the "Old Field"
Monday Morning Mystery 021813
Seen on a trip to the Eastern Shore of Maryland: What is bushhogging?
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