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Wordless Wednesday - Common Yellowthroat, Bombay Hook NWR
May 22, 2013 - Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) photographed at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Smyrna, Delaware:
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Peregrine Falcon, Palisades Interstate Park, Alpine, NJ
May 19, 2013 - Once in a while, I'm happy with a rainy weekend because I can (slightly) catch up on the backlog of unedited photographs...
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Immature Glossy Ibis landing, J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel, Florida
May 17, 2013 - Immature Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) coming in for a landing.
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Greater Yellowlegs, Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Smyrna, Delaware
May 11, 2013 - Taking advantage of a rainy weather, I just edited this new photo of a Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca). I took t...
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Little Blue Heron - J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel, Florida
May 10, 2013 - Here is a wading bird that I don't see to often in New Jersey, Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea):
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Ramapo, New Jersey
May 06, 2013 - Contrary to most people complaining about the slow spring migration in the Northeast so far, I really enjoy photographin...
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Playful Great Blue Heron chicks in the nest, Venice Rookery, Florida
May 03, 2013 - This week's "Florida Friday" photograph is once again photograph taken at the Venice Rookery, Venice, Florida. Place int...
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Common Yellowthroat, Bombay Hook NWR, Spring Migration
May 01, 2013 - Another teaser photo. This time a Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) photographed at Bombay Hook National Wildlife...
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Adult Great Egret in breeding plumage
April 26, 2013 - One of my goals when visiting Florida, was to see common birds that spend summer/fall in New Jersey but are rarely seen...
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Common Loon with a fresh caught crab
April 24, 2013 - A teaser photo of an adult Common Loon coming into the breeding plumage:
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Roseate Spoonbill - Venice Rookery, Florida
April 19, 2013 - Change of plans.
With the amount of unedited photographs from my 2012 trip to Florida, I've decided to give them a spec...
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Peregrine Falcon, Hudson River, New Jersey - Wings on Wednesday
April 17, 2013 - For this week's Wings on Wednesday two recent photographs of the local Peregrine Falcon flying over the Hudson River....
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Red-headed Woodpecker, Dorothy, New Jersey
April 16, 2013 - Even though Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) is a year-long resident of New Jersey, I've never seen on...
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Great Gray Owl in flight - Ottawa, Canada
April 10, 2013 - This time for the "Wings on Wednesday" theme, I'm posting photographs of a Great Gray Owl. This series was taken by my w...
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Great Horned Owlet - Fort De Soto Park, Florida - Wayback Wednesday
April 03, 2013 - Each week, as a Wayback Wednesday feature, I will continue to post more photographs from my 2012 trip to Florida.
Today...
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Red-necked Grebe, West Hudson Park, Harrison, New Jersey
March 29, 2013 - I just edited some more photographs from the first day of photographing Red-necked Grebe at West Hudson Park in Harrison...
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American White Pelican - "Ding" Darling NWR, Florida - Wings on Wednesday
March 27, 2013 - Yet another Florida photo but this time an American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) in flight, photographed in...
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Red-necked Grebe, West Hudson Park, Kearny, New Jersey
March 23, 2013 - Quick edit of an another rare bird in New Jersey. This time it is a Red-necked Grebe found yesterday in West Hudson Park...
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Wordless Wednesday - Sandhill Crane close-up - Viera Wetlands, Florida
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Pacific Loon at Morris Plains, New Jersey - Research before you go!
March 17, 2013 - Research before you go!
Surprise, surprise! With today's reports we have 4 Pacific Loons in NJ!
I got a chance to phot...
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Wordless Wednesday - Tricolored Heron preening
March 13, 2013 - Tricolored Heron preening - Egretta tricolor - J. N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel, Florida
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American Tree Sparrow in the snow
March 07, 2013 - Today, may be the last chance for us here in New Jersey to get some snow accumulation. Maybe 2 inches but unfortunately...
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Female Common Merganser - Passaic River, New Jersey
March 04, 2013 - To give you a break from the owl photographs:) I'm posting my latest edit of a local wintering waterfowl. I took this ph...
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Great Gray Owl
February 20, 2013 - Quick edit from my latest birding trip, Great Gray Owl!!!
This birds was on my bucket list for years and you can be sur...
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Great Horned Owl video, Bergen County, New Jersey
February 04, 2013 - Finally, I found some time to edit video of the Great Horned Owl I shared photographs of in January.
I was really surpr...
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That's How Big I am!
January 30, 2013 - Here is one of my favorite photographs I've taken on the beginning of January on the Passaic River in Paterson, NJ.
T...
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Great Horned Owls, Bergen County, New Jersey
January 24, 2013 - Even though Great Horned Owl is one of the most widespread and common owls in North America it is still very hard to fin...
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Pied-billed Grebe, Passaic River, New Jersey
January 15, 2013 - Another photograph taken on the Passaic River in New Jersey. This time Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps).
I think...
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Hooded Merganser on the Passaic River
January 12, 2013 - Ah, it's that time of the year. Ducks, ducks, ducks:)
A quick post showing a beautiful female Hooded Merganser swimming...
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American Pipits at the DeKorte Park
January 07, 2013 - Quick post showing an American Pipit snacking on some sort of bug.
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Male American Kestrel on his favorite perch
January 01, 2013 - Here is a recent photo of one of many American Kestrels at the Meadowlands.
Stay tuned for more pictures from that da...
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Rough-legged Hawk - dark morph - at the Meadowlands
December 31, 2012 - What a way to end the year!!!
Today, I had a distant view on a dark morph Rough-legged Hawk (Buteo lagopus) at the DeKo...
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Crested Caracara in West Windsor Township, New Jersey
September 23, 2012 - Finally getting back to posting my bird photography here on the blog.
Getting back with a big bang too!
Two weeks ag...
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Wings on Wednesday – female American Kestrel
October 25, 2011 - A couple weeks ago, I was fortunate to see one of my favorite birds, American Kestrel. Previously, I saw these birds fro...
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Blue Grosbeak feeding on dandelions
May 16, 2011 - Blue Grosbeak ©Greg Gard - www.greggard.com - Canon EOS 7D, 500mm F4 + 1.4x teleconverter, ISO 640, 1/640s, f/7.1 AV mod...
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Spring arrivals – Garret Mountain Reservation – Woodland Park, New Jersey
April 28, 2011 - Last Sunday, I visited Garret Mountain Reservation in search for spring migrants. For the first 3 hours I had no luck, b...
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Morning Stretch
April 17, 2011 - American Oystercatcher ©Greg Gard - www.greggard.com - Canon EOS 7D, 500mm F4, ISO 400, 1/1250s, f/8 AV mode - Click on...
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Wordless Wednesday – Wood Duck – drake
April 05, 2011 - Celery Farm, Allendale, New Jersey
Wood Duck ©Greg Gard - www.greggard.com - Canon EOS 7D, 500mm F4, ISO 1250, 1/800s,...
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Wordless Wednesday – Red-tailed Hawk
March 01, 2011 - Red-tailed Hawk ©Greg Gard - www.greggard.com - Canon EOS 7D, 300mm F2.8 IS + 1.4x teleconverter, ISO 640, 1/2000s, f/9...
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Rough-legged Hawk (light morph) – Meadowlands
February 27, 2011 - This week I want to share photos of a light morph Rough-legged Hawk that was seen regularly at the Meadowlands area this...
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Northern Harriers – DeKorte Park – Lyndhurst, New Jersey
February 21, 2011 - Continuing with my photo report from my recent visit to DeKorte Park, I want to share couple of photographs of the North...
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Ring-necked Pheasants at DeKorte Park
February 08, 2011 - What was originally planned as a 30 minute visit to the DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst, NJ it turned out to be a five hour st...
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Happy New Year 2011!
January 01, 2011 - Happy New Year everyone!
White-Throated Sparrow - Zonotrichia albicollis
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Year 2010 – Photo review
December 31, 2010 - I just want to post a quick photo review of the year 2010. These are mostly rare/life birds I was fortunate to see this...
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Wordless Wednesday – Fork-tailed Flycatcher – Cove Island Park – Stamford, Connecticut
November 30, 2010 - Fork-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus savana), Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT ©www.greggard.com
Fork-tailed Flycatcher (Ty...
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Black-bellied Whistling Ducks in Cape May
November 16, 2010 - Back in September, I was spending a weekend in Cape May, New Jersey. It is about three hour drive from where I live and...
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Birding report in pictures – Fall migration at Sandy Hook
October 04, 2010 - Just a quick report from last Sunday’s birding trip to Sandy Hook, New Jersey.
Literally in the first two minutes on th...
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Summer Project – Shorebirds in New Jersey
July 28, 2010 - I just want to share with you couple of pictures from my latest project I’ve been working on for past weeks.
It all sta...
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Northern Shrike in New Jersey
February 23, 2010 - As of today, February 23rd, one of the latest favorites amongst birders in New Jersey, Northern Shrike, still hangs arou...
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Sunday morning surprise!
February 01, 2010 - I woke up to a cloudy Sunday morning. Forecast wasn’t helping with photography related plans, therefore I wasn’t rushing...
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Happy New Year!!!
January 04, 2010 - I would like to share with you some new images I’ve taken over the holidays…
Unfortunately on both holiday weekends wea...
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