On July 1st, 2004 I joined a group of other teenage birders on a boat trip from Hog Island, Maine out to Eastern Egg Rock. This … Read More
Cape May Pelagic – Black-legged Kittiwakes
Famous for their massive nesting colonies throughout the arctic, the Black-legged Kittiwake is a common winter visitor off the east coast of North America. Occasionally, … Read More
Cape May Pelagic – Northern Fulmars
One of the species I was most excited to see on the February 4th Cape May pelagic was the Northern Fulmar. I had only previously … Read More
Cape May Pelagic – Northern Gannets!
As soon as it was light enough to see this past Saturday morning, when we left on the Atlantic Star on an all-day pelagic trip … Read More
Cape May Pelagic – Razorbills, Common Murres, and a whole lotta Dovekies
This past Saturday I joined 40 other birders on a 12 hour pelagic birding trip off the coast of Cape May County, NJ. This trip … Read More
Photo Study: Black-headed Gull in Cape May, NJ
One of my target birds for our trip down to Cape May, NJ this past weekend was an adult Black-headed Gull that has been seen … Read More
Rarity Round-Up: A Four Day Birding Adventure
Click on links throughout this post to see our full eBird checklists and more photos for the locations mentioned! Last week I was sitting around … Read More
King Eider and Dickcissel – Cape May County, NJ
One December 28th, Anna and I made a slight detour on our roadtrip down to Florida, in order to swing through Cape May County and … Read More
Rufous Hummingbird – CMBO Goshen Center, NJ
On the afternoon of November 21st, two of my friends and I stopped by the Cape May Bird Observatory’s Goshen Center to search for the … Read More
Ash-throated Flycatcher – Cape May
On the morning of November 21st, Nate Fronk, Josh Lefever, and I birded a few spots around Cape May before heading over to the Cape … Read More