Tuesday, January 28, 2014

It's been quite a while since we were active on the blog, but we hope to start doing regular posts again. We're once again hunkered down along the shore of Lake Superior at Whitefish Point again for the winter. We headed back east to visit family for the holidays and took the opportunity to spend a day photographing along the Jersey shore. New Jersey gets a bad rap for a lot of things, but the birding is world class. We headed to Barnaget Light on Long Beach Island, a spot famous for its wintering Harlequin Ducks. Despite all the time I spent birding in Jersey while living near Philadelphia this was our first visit to Barnaget in the winter. The weather was perfect and the birds quickly showed us why this site has such a great reputation for winter birding.
Long-tailed Duck

Long-tailed Duck

Harlequin Duck

Harlequin Duck

Harlequin Duck


Harlequin Ducks

Harlequin Duck

Harlequin Ducks

Harlequin Ducks