Archive for the 'New Jersey' Category
12
Sep
dog face
10
Sep
Atlantic City
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28
Jan
Forsythe NWR
12
Dec
I met Don King
More about it soon. I’m beat and still sick.
In an attempt to escape the city today, we did not escape the rain. I had been wanting to check out Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge for a while now. There don’t seem to be many trails throughout the Refuge and the available maps are pretty much nil. Before realizing the correct direction to the Refuge, we stumbled upon Fort Mott State Park. Fort Mott was built in post Civil War times as part of a three-fort defense system along the Delaware River. The Fort (along with the other two, Fort Delaware and Fort DuPont) became obsolete shortly after World War I. You could only explore one of the bunkers at Fort Mott, but the structure itself was pretty cool. It started to rain again so we decided to head for the car and try to find Supawna Meadows. We took a short walk through the Refuge and very little photos. But for being under 40 miles outside of Philadelphia (in New Jersey), it was a nice escape for the day.
05
Feb
bridge to nowhere
I made a quick jolt to go birding with a friend at the bridge to nowhere in Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey while everyone else was watching the Super Bowl. We spotted these species and more:
- short-eared owl (Asio flammeus)
- rough-legged hawk (Buteo lagopus)
- tri-colored heron (Egretta tricolor)
- great blue heron (Ardea herodias)
- little blue heron (Egretta caerulea) - juvenile
- downy woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)
- kingfisher- male and female
- red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
And it wouldn’t be Jersey if there weren’t ticks. Yes, you read that right: TICKS. In February. In the winter. Between the two of us and the dog, we found over a dozen on us. ick! I’m still itchy just thinking about it.
The area is called bridge to nowhere because…guess what!? There’s a bridge to nowhere. Who would have thought!?
