Great Swamp

Scherman Hoffman and Great Swamp

Sherry Felix5 Comments

Our small group of Linnaean NY birders led by Richard Z tried to stay cool by hugging the shade on Sunday, July 3. The highlight was a Ruby-throated Hummingbird sitting on its tiny golf ball sized nest at Great Swamp in Morris County, New Jersey. The rest of these photographs were made at the New Jersey Audubon Sherman Hoffman Sanctuary.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris), Great Swamp 7/3/2022
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), Scherman Hoffman 7/3/2022
Showy Tick-Trefoil (Desmodium canadense), Scherman Hoffman 7/3/2022
Eastern Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron annuus), Scherman Hoffman 7/3/2022
Bracken, Scherman Hoffman 7/3/2022
Piliated Woodpecker holes, Scherman Hoffman 7/3/2022
Queen Anne’s Lace (Daucus carota), Scherman Hoffman 7/3/2022
Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus Cincinnatus), Scherman Hoffman 7/3/2022
Christmas fern, Scherman Hoffman 7/3/2022
Scherman Hoffman 7/3/2022
Scherman Hoffman 7/3/2022
Deer skull, Scherman Hoffman 7/3/2022
Fringed Loosestrife (Lysimachia ciliata), Scherman Hoffman 7/3/2022
American or Purple Vetch (Vicia americana), Scherman Hoffman 7/3/2022

Great Swamp and Lord Stirling

Sherry Felix14 Comments

On Sunday we went with the Linnaean Society of NY to the Great Swamp NWR in Morris County, New Jersey and Lord Stirling Park in Somerset County, New Jersey. The photos signed Felix are by Marc. He found the wood frog.

  • Purple Martin (Progne subis), Great Swamp NWR 6/27/2021
  • Purple Martin (Progne subis), Great Swamp NWR 6/27/2021
  • Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia), Great Swamp NWR 6/27/2021
  • Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum), Great Swamp NWR 6/27/2021
  • Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) and Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias), Great Swamp NWR 6/27/2021
  • Wood Frog (Lithobates sylvaticus), Great Swamp NWR 6/27/2021
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue (Cupido comyntas) on Crown Vetch (invasive), Great Swamp NWR 6/27/2021
  • Orange Sulphur (Colias eurytheme), Great Swamp NWR 6/27/2021
  • Crown Vetch or Axseed (Coronilla varia) invasive, Great Swamp NWR 6/27/2021
  • Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta), Great Swamp NWR 6/27/2021
  • Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) invasive, Great Swamp NWR 6/27/2021
  • Chicory (Cichorium intybus) invasive, Great Swamp NWR 6/27/2021
  • Orange Daylily (Hemerocallis fulva), Great Swamp NWR 6/27/2021
  • Great Swamp NWR 6/27/2021
  • Great Swamp NWR 6/27/2021
Great Swamp NWR (above)
  • Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) female, Lord Stirling Park 6/27/2021
  • Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) male, Lord Stirling Park 6/27/2021
  • Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens), Lord Stirling Park 6/27/2021
  • Green Heron (Butorides virescens), Lord Stirling Park 6/27/2021
  • Northern Rough-winged Swallow (Stelgidopteryx serripennis), Lord Stirling Park 6/27/2021
  • Blue-fronted Dancer (Argia apicalis), Lord Stirling Park 6/27/2021
  • Eastern Amberwing (Perithemis tenera), Lord Stirling Park 6/27/2021
  • Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata), Lord Stirling Park 6/27/2021
  • Yellow Evening-Primrose (Oenothera flava), Lord Stirling Park 6/27/2021
  • Northern Highbush Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum), Lord Stirling Park 6/27/2021
  • Lord Stirling Park 6/27/2021
  • Lord Stirling Park 6/27/2021
Lord Stirling Park (above)