Baltimore Oriole eating an orange

Baltimore Oriole
Chris is ecstatic. We've put out oranges in late April for three years now. Each year, the orioles would build nests in a tree over the lake, but ignore our food. Today, we had our first oriole eat an orange.

Tanagers from Trinidad and Tobago

Silver-beaked Tanager



White-lined Tanager


Palm Tanager


Turquoise Tanager


We haven't been birding in NJ in a little while, but plan to soon. In the meantime, we are posting a few more photos from Trinidad and Tobago.

Scarlet Tanager

Scarlet Tanager

The Scarlet Tanager was our best find at Prospect Park in Brooklyn.

Nashville Warbler from Prospect Park

Warbler

Black and White Warbler

Black and White Warbler



Here are some photos of an early spring migrating bird, the black and white warbler. We visited Prospect Park in Brooklyn because the weather was supposed to be nice and there had been sightings of a prothonotary warbler. No such luck for us, but we did have some great pizza, red velvet cake and ice cream after birding in Brooklyn.

Photos by Catherine

 

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

 

White Throated Sparrow

Common Morrhen: Photo by Wendy

 

Black-crowned Night Heron: Photo by Nelson

 

Night Heron-Taken on our piling in Stone Harbor

Catbirds Return

Catbird at the Jelly Feeder



We look forward to the return of the gray catbird. Sometimes, this bird sounds like a crying baby. Sometimes, the catbird sounds like a cat. Sometimes, it has an upbeat, silly song.

Catbirds eat insects and come to jelly feeders.

Neighborhood Birds

Orchard Oriole

Yellow Warbler

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

Ochre-bellied flycatcher from Trinidad

Ochre-bellied flycatcher
We are still sneaking in a few birds from our trip to T&T. We have a few more to go.

Blue-chinned Sapphire sticking his tongue out.

Blue-chinned Sapphire
One more from Trinidad.