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Red-tailed hawk! Nice shot!

May you all have a safe and happy Holiday season, a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Spung-Man in 3...2...1...

Al I agree regarding how common they are here. I think the reason for it is that racers are listed as threatened or in need of conservation in other Northeastern states, assuming that NJDEP is communicating with other Wildlife Management Agencies in creating their action plan and collaborating...

Thank you for posting this, we were planning to take the family there. After reading that it's a priority.

They have great eyesight, better than most snakes, hence the periscoping. They can see your face and other parts of your body and they seem to very precisely identify their strike area before doing so. Between the two they definitely appear very threatening. I'm with Al in that picking one up is...

The DEP just released its new Wildlife Action Plan, and is inviting the public to comment on it: http://www.nj.gov/dep/fgw/ensp/waphome.htm Admittedly I didn't read all 3052 pages of it, however I got to some very interesting parts of it within the course of an hour. One thing that surprised...

Hope he makes a quick and full recovery.

Looks like this might put a damper on our trip to see the tree at Rockefeller Center. NYC also expecting about 5".

That I certainly understand!

I didn't know that about FREC. I'll have to check it out with the kids, thank you for the info! German brought up a great point, bluebirds are not the only cavity nesting birds that took a hit in the late 19th/early 20th century because of land being cleared (and because of the very...

It's interesting that you should mention that, it never crossed my mind how many different types of cavity-nesting birds there are compared to the attention that bluebirds get. I wonder if it has less to do with lack of appropriate nesting sites and more to do with their susceptibility to being...

Great picture!

Great info 46er, I'm interested in trying to get out to see the snowies this year as well. I have not yet had the pleasure of seeing them.

While reading the debate above regarding banding, the red knot came to mind as well.

Felt it in Mercer County

A belated Happy Thanksgiving, and as others have said, thank you!!

I wanted to keep you all in the loop regarding a project that the students and I became involved in a few years back. In short, the students were in the middle of an amphibian conservation project and I went to look up the NJ State reptile and amphibian and noticed that there wasn't one. So we...

Oil beetle, a type of blister beetle. Probably Meloe americanus. Don't touch it with bare hands!

Beautiful!