Greetings,
It’s been a while since we’ve seen Ryan around Chat Happens way, but he is planning on paying a visit to Cumberand Co. NJ to visit Chad and to perhaps see another one of his old friends, Chatley the Chat. Look for some photos and a write-up for this upcoming weekend early next week.

Greetings,
This past weekend (Saturday), a party was held in honor of all the bird scientists working on the Delaware Bay (and all over the world) in hopes of learning about, and protecting shorebirds. Avian scientists attending the party called such places home as the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Belize, Mexico, and more! […]

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Due to time constraints with internet usage, I have not yet had a chance to update my South NJ Targets page yet. I do have the new species highlighted in that I have viewed (Prothonotary Warbler and Summer Tanager), but the accounts for those sightings have not yet been written. Look out for them soon!
~Chad

Greetings,
Today the crew and I banded at Thompson’s Beach once again in hopes of capturing a few more Semipalmated Sandpipers for the current study. As expected we did well, but in fact, we did better than we had hoped. I think all in all nearly 100 birds were captured, flagged, and released into the wild. […]

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Taking a walk near the house in the fading sunlight, I was looking to get some good photos of various birds, and in particular I was hoping to get an in-focus Blue Grosbeak (no luck yet). At any rate, I did happen to snag a few photos of an adult male Yellow Warbler as it […]

Greetings,
Just two days ago I had the fortune of seeing two new (life bird) species, just a half mile from my house! If the title of this post didn’t give them away, they were Prothonotary Warbler and Summer Tanager, two species that I’ve been searching for in south NJ since my first trip here nearly […]

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Yesterday my housemates and I had our first opportunity to band at Fortescue Beach in NJ. As before with our site at Thompson’s Beach, our primary target species was Semipalmated Sandpiper. As luck would have it, we got to Fortescue and found thousands of shorebirds feeding on the beach looking for Horseshoe Crab eggs that […]

Greetings,
Aside from the photos of the Curlew Sandpiper, we did take some photos of other things at Heislerville last night (May 13th) including thousands of Semipalmated Sandpipers and Dunlin, and a few happy birders! Enjoy!
~Chad

Greetings,
I just had the fortune last night of seeing for the first time my life Curlew Sandpiper at Heislerville WMA in southern New Jersey. To read more about the sighting, and to see some photos of this sharp bird, please visit my Southern NJ Target List, here:
Enjoy!!!
~Chad

Here are some photos of some of the shorebirds that we have banded over the first few days of the season. Can you identify all of them? Enjoy: