These rarer cousins of the white-breasted nuthatch have been in the

   The Record has a front-page story of mine today about a proposed New Jersey ban on plastic grocery bags.

   I am happy to announce we have a screech owl living in Owlendale once again, at least occasionally.  

   With mostly mallards and Canada geese on Lake Appert this damp and windy morning (there was a distant kingfisher),

  I have been doing this blog for almost nine months now, mostly by the seat of my pants, and

     Pretty good full moon at the Celery Farm just before 5 p.m. last night, as I posted yesterday

  The photo at left was taken Friday night ay dusk.    There’s a full moon tonight (Saturday) at 4:17

      Got to the Celery Farm yesterday morning in time to catch some wild fog action.    As

  The winning entry is Quacker Tracker, submitted by Carol Dickman.    Congrats and a big thank you to all