bird watching

If you asked me a few years ago would I be out on a cold December morning chasing birds to take the photos I'd probably have said .....NO! However after slowly getting into "bird watching" I love it and enjoy spending time hiking and looking for our feathered friends. I t...

It was "Bird Watching" weekend this past weekend here in New Jersey and thousands of bird watchers hit spots across the Garden State to spot as many birds as they could! If you saw someone walking around with binoculars this weekend they were probably spotting a bird in the distance...

It's another edition of "Daytripping with Shawn Michaels" as we continue our series "Hiking New Jersey", this time at the Edwin B Forsythe Wildlife Refuge in Atlantic County. Forsythe park is located in Oceanville, New Jersey and offers a great scenic view, bird-watching, and hiking...

As bummed as I was about waking up at 4:30 am with a mild case of insomnia, I was happy about one thing.  I noticed the early birds were up already...presumably to catch the worms.  They were singing in my back yard and it was a really nice sound...

The OSPREY ... also called fish eagle, sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk It is a bird pf prey, a Jersey Shore favorite and seen up and down the eastern seaboard...it's the Osprey! I took the still shots of the Osprey right here at the Jersey Shore...

So I spotted this guy in our neighborhood .... the "turkey vulture". In some areas known as the "turkey buzzard" and in the Caribbean it's the "john crow". The scavenger of the air ... this bird usually turns up when there's food to be found, although he's not too picky. In ...

So do you love your backyard birds ?