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Nightfall at Jake’s Landing – February 23, 2025

Leaders: Mary Watkins, Pam Hubert, Steve Rodan Temp:  Winds: Weather Conditions: 15 species Species Count American Black Duck 1 Bufflehead 4 Dunlin 150 Ring-billed Gull 15 American Herring Gull 4 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Red-throated Loon 1 Great Blue Heron 1 Northern Harrier 7 Bald Eagle 8…...

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Birding the Barrier Islands – February 22, 2025

Leaders: Chris Marks, Dave & Lynn Pollard, Steve Rodan Temp: 37°- 44°F Winds: W 10-15 mph Weather Conditions: overcast Stone Harbor Point – 12:59pm 9 species  Species Count American Black Duck 8 Black Scoter 4 Long-tailed Duck 4 American Herring Gull 30 Turkey Vulture 3 Northern Harrier 1 Bald Eagle…...

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Birding Cape May Point – February 22, 2025

Leaders: John McElroy, Bernie Hodgdon Temp:  Winds: Weather Conditions: 22 species Species Count scoter sp. 14 Mourning Dove 6 American Herring Gull 20 Forster’s Tern 1 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Turkey Vulture 4 Accipitrine hawk sp. (former Accipiter sp.) 1 Bald Eagle 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker…...

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Birding Cape May Point – February 15, 2025

Leaders: Roger Horn, Holly & Mark Lemieux Temp: 38° F Winds:  SE 9 mph Weather Conditions: cloudy A little wind and 38 degrees at Cape May Point State Park this morning. Starting off on the Red Trail we headed to Lighthouse Pond. Ring-necked Duck and Gadwall along with Mallards and…...

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Winter Gardening Tips

Winter Gardening Tips By Kristal Stahler Are you a restless winter gardener? It can be difficult to sit back and wait when it comes to your garden, but your winter garden often needs very little intervention! Luckily, there are some tasks you can tackle now if you can brave the…...

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Birding Cape May Point – February 8, 2025

Leaders: Roger Horn, Holly & Mark Lemieux, Bernie Hodgdon Temp: 28° F Winds: Weather Conditions: cloudy A quiet cloudy 28 degrees at Cape May Point State Park this morning. The Plover Ponds and Bunker Pond had a good variety of ducks to review, as well as a Lesser Yellowlegs, a…...

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New Jersey Audubon Eco-Travel: Minnesota in Winter-January 23-28, 2025 with Scott Barnes

By Scott Barnes, Senior Naturalist It was a blazing hot trip to the frozen bogs, spruce forests, and shores of Lake Superior on this winter’s Minnesota tour. Winter birding can vary from year to year at this northern latitude and our trip was most fortunate to coincide with an irruption…...

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Birding Cape May Point – February 1, 2025

Leaders: Roger Horn, Holly and Mark Lemieux, Bernie Hodgdon Temp: 41° F Winds:  NW 14 mph Weather Conditions: mostly sunny 13-16mph wind and 41 degrees at Cape May Point State Park this morning. Canada Geese calling and flying overhead. They were starting to fly towards Delaware then changed their minds…...

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