A Northern cardinal has a bit of breakfast at the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm this morning. #Birds 🪶
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A Northern cardinal has a bit of breakfast at the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm this morning. #Birds 🪶
Ice cubes in beer: is this popular pub order atrocious – or ingenious?
My second Labor Day outing was at Veterans Park in Hamilton, NJ, a good spot for waterfowl frequenting its manmade lake. #Birds 🪶
This Eastern kingbird was lording it over the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm this morning. Happy Labor Day, everyone. #Birds
Returning the favor!
Got back to a nearby lake today to enjoy nature and some calm. I sat on a bench near the waters edge to enjoy the scenery when I heard a loud noise to my left. Here was this heron sitting in the tall grasses near me. Glad I had my camera with me. 🪶#birdwatching #birds #photography #wildlife
The Eastern wood-pewees are pee-ah-weeing away in my part of New Jersey. Here's one that was sitting up pretty at the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm this morning. #Birds 🪶
The feathers on this male scarlet tanager, which I spotted at the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm this morning, are starting to switch to winter plumage. I'd not seen this pattern before. 🪶 #Birds
Back at the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm this morning, I caught this female American redstart taking off from a tree. Warblers move quickly, and I consider myself lucky to have gotten the shot. #Birds 🪶
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The fun would be watching Chump's reaction to it. 🤯 #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
Excellent question.
The administration has clearly embraced the strategic cultivation of uncertainty and ignorance.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
After wearing powder blues last night, the Phillies will don their City Connects Friday vs. the Braves. Stay up to date on the Phillies' uniform schedule using our tracker! onpattison.com/news/2025/au...
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Thanks. It was great to get a fair amount of time to shoot before it took off.
Thanks! 1/800th with ISO at 800.
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I’ve been traveling the last several days, and catching this ruby-throated humming bird in cardinal flowers at Acadia National Park in Maine was one of the highlights. #Birds
Tonight’s Jhoan Durán entrance at Citizens Bank Park
I love the MLB app on my iPhone, but if I hear one more “offo-taco” commercial I may sue for psychological torture.
Rainy and cloudy at home today, so here’s an indigo bunting from yesterday to brighten things. #Birds
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The morning sun gave this Northern cardinal a glow-up today at the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm. 🪶 #Birds
Surprise! This green-winged teal was hanging out among the mallards at Colonial Lake today in Lawrence Township, NJ. 🪶 #Birds
Pure class, bashing your predecessor with a dictator. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...
We’re fortunate to have blue grosbeaks filling the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm with their song these days. Here’s one from way up high near the parking lot this morning. #Birds
My friend Sheila McEntee is featured on the latest episode of this podcast. She discusses her book of nature essays, “Soul Friend and Other Love Notes to the Natural World.” #Birds podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
The @orioles.com followed me today, and in a great coincidence, I photographed this Baltimore Oriole this morning! She’s a beauty. #Birds 🪶
Two specimens at a museum in Cambridge are the only physical evidence this bird ever existed.
My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.
They stop by ours, too. Oy.
End times. www.cbsnews.com/news/ufc-to-...
I photographed only one bird this morning, this Cooper's hawk that surprised me by landing about 100 feet ahead of me on the trail I was walking at the Pole Farm in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. #Birds 🪶
Great #Phillies win tonight, winning 4-1 on an 8th inning rally. #RingTheBell.
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This indigo bunting was high up in a tree this morning at the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm in Lawrenceville, NJ. #Birds 🪶
Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have theonion.com/watchdo...
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Well, you must have fewer flies than we do, too! We have several flycatchers, and the willow is the most common in my area.
I forgot to post yesterday that this Opening Chapter hazy IPA from the Drewery Brewery in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, was outstanding. #beer
This willow flycatcher was taking a breather yesterday afternoon at the Reed Bryan Farm in Pennington, New Jersey. A handsome bird, no? 🪶 #Birds
Great piece on the making of "Born to Run." I bought the album on the day it was released and the day after drove it with me to my sophomore year of college. www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
Smart! Raven loves winning Tic Tac Toe.
Nice shot!
Juvenile. It’ll turn blue eventually.
An Eastern kingbird was surprisingly cooperative this evening as I made a quick visit to the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm. The bird stayed placidly on a plant while I snapped away. #Birds 🪶 #NaturePhotography
They’re often around where the great blues are — and harder to spot because they blend in with the foliage.
I braved shoe-sucking mud in a swamp off the Delaware & Raritan Canal yesterday. My reward? A clear shot at this richly plumed green heron. 🪶 #Birds #WildlifePhotography
This Eastern kingbird was looking cute this morning at the Pole Farm in Pennington, NJ. #Birds 🪶
Devers — boom! #SFGiants.
Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles theonion.com/trump-s...
I’m rooting for the #SFGiants, of course, but I don’t hate and maybe even like the #Mets’ gray NYC uniforms.
We have rare visitors in Princeton, a pair of sedge wrens at the Mountain Lakes Preserve. Today, I got a look. #Birds 🪶
Robbie Robertson jamming with Eric Clapton. I am transported to a higher level of consciousness.
Rewatching “The Last Waltz.” Dang. What a performance.
Just spotted in Princeton: a Rolls Royce SUV.
Pretty soon all economic and jobs data released by the federal government will be handwritten with a black Sharpie
COVID redux. If you don't count the cases, you don't have any. SMH.
A little blue heron has been hanging out in the swamp off the Delaware & Raritan Canal at Port Mercer. I was lucky to spot it this afternoon. #Birds 🪶
Doing mysterious and important work, I visited Bell Works today. What a place!
I can’t let the day pass without noting with sadness the passing of Ryne Sandberg, one of the greatest #Cubs of all time. RIP, Ryno.
Audubon’s Plainsboro Preserve is a good spot at certain times of year. Locals like me like the Millstone River Impoundment just off Route 1 southbound, north end of Princeton.
Coming up next from the administration: everyone must change their underwear every hour and wear it on the outside "so we can check." wapo.st/3TZfN3E
They brighten every day here!
The New Jersey state bird is the American goldfinch. This fella showed up nicely in the sunshine yesterday. #Birds 🪶
I had the pleasure of watching four blue-gray gnatcatchers zipping about a stand of trees at the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm this morning. This one stood still just long enough for me to focus. #Birds 🪶
The #SFGiants uniforms are classic, but these caps tonight are WRONG.
My favorite signs from today as Scotland turned out to protest Trump. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
I got this Volkswagen ID.4 one year ago today. It’s a terrific ride.
Nigel Tufnel
Watching #Phillies-#Yankees on TV. Does my #beer give away my rooting interest?
Next stop: Savannah! #Phillies
Northern cardinal strikes a Pole Farm pose this morning.
I'm so happy I got a photo for #FlyDay! This #Osprey flew straight toward me when he took off from a high branch! #birds #photography #Raptors
New research from Princeton on #birds. 🪶 theconversation.com/birds-use-hi...
There is a warm, special place in the hereafter for people who make calls on trains using their speaker phones.
Are the #Rangers borrowing the #Royals uniforms tonight??? #MLB
Gorgeous, aren’t they?!
I first thought that this white-tailed deer had a fruit rollup stuck to him. Then I realized it was his tongue! (Princeton, NJ, today) #WildlifePhotography
TFW you put Los Lobos on Spotify and return from the grill to find your wife playing Barry Manilow.
Two sides of the same American goldfinch, which stayed on a branch long enough for me to walk around for shots from two angles. 🪶 #Birds
My goodness, I love it when the #SFGiants are playing in Eastern time. It’s such a kick to hear the KNBR broadcasts live.
The Phillies just did a kiss cam between innings at Citizens Bank Park. The song playing was "Clocks" by Coldplay. The Phanatic then kissed a version of the Phanatic in a blonde wig.
Eastern kingbird looking regal atop a tree at the Pole Farm this morning. #Birds 🪶
Check out these Allegany blackberries ripening at the Pole Farm. The one ripe one is no longer there. 😉
The radio in our Subaru is randomly switching stations every few seconds. We’re pretty sure it’s possessed by the devil. Do we call the dealer or the Georgetown Jesuits?
Monarch butterflies always inspire me, as did this one yesterday at the wonderful West Virginia Botanic Garden in Morgantown. #Butterflies
I find red-eyed vireos notoriously hard to spot, let alone capture in a photo. Imagine my surprise and delight when I realized I'd caught this one today at the West Virginia Botanic Garden in Morgantown. #Birds 🪶
Exactly!
I've met Julia, and I can attest she is a "normal person." Well, as much as any of us birders can be! #Birds 🪶
It's a rare day when I get only one photo worth saving, and today was one of those days. This American goldfinch helped me not get shut out. #Birds 🪶
This field sparrow and I shared a few moments together on a Pole Farm trail. We each got a good look at each other before it flew to this branch at the edge of the woods. 🪶 #Birds
I caught this brown thrasher foraging at the edge of a trail at the Pole Farm this morning. Not my best show of one, but I love these guys, especially when they sing their wacky song. #Birds 🪶
A grey day in the park yesterday was brightened when a passerby mentioned he had seen an owl a few hundred yards in the direction we were headed and we found it! #birds #photography #birdphotography #Raptors #owl 🦉 A Barred Owl (my first attempt at ALT Text)
A young robin appeared in the Pole Farm grasses this morning, showing off its spots. #Birds
