Tag Archives: Great-Swamp-NWR Time is fleeting. What did you do with your last slice of it ? What will you do with your next ? Tufted Titmouse milliseconds before landing at one of the feeders to the left of the Sportsman’s blind at Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge on Sunday 3-15-2009. Sorry about the distracting background. There was...  A Tufted Titmouse dives in to knock a White-breasted Nuthatch off of one of the feeders at the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Basking Ridge, NJ on Sunday 3-15-2009. For more information on the Great Swamp Wildlife Refuge, visit their web site at http://www.fws.gov/northeast/greatswamp/.  This is an adult Bald Eagle, one of over 100 raptors of 20 different species found at the Raptor Trust, a private, non-profit facility dedicated to the preservation and well-being of birds of prey. It is located next to the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Millington, New Jersey. The facility is very well run...  Canada Goose taking a drink from one of the water areas at the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in northern New Jersey on Monday 3-9-2009. For more information on the Great Swamp NWR, visit their web site at http://www.fws.gov/northeast/greatswamp/.  “In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold or respectability would in the least redeem it,– dining with the Governor or a member of Congress!! But alone in the distant woods or fields, in unpretending sprout-lands or pastures tracked by rabbits,...  I found this female Red-Bellied Woodpecker feeding on seed in one of the nicely stocked feeders at the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Basking Ridge, NJ on Monday, 3-9-2009. A constant rotation of several different bird species would visit the feeder in rapid succession including Black-Capped Chickadee, Blue Jay, Red-Winged Blackbird, Tufted Titmouse and... |
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