Birdline
Photo Gallery
(from
late 2002 til now)
Referring to Birds noted on the
Philadelphia & Delaware
Birdlines
Photos in this gallery © - all rights reserved by the photographers.
Other Photographs in: FONT Photo Gallery of North American Birds
Two photographs of a Redwing in Bucks
County, Pennsylvania, USA,
one day only, Saturday, February 5, 2005,
a first for Pennsylvania, the third for the US.
The bird was found, among a flock of American Robins,
at Peace Valley by Jessica Huff.
Hundreds of birders who looked for it the next day did not find it.
(Top photo courtesy of Dave ReReamus.
Lower photo courtesy of Devich Farbotnik.)
The Redwing is a common thrush across Eurasia, from Iceland to eastern Siberia.
There have been a number of records in eastern Canada in: Newfoundland,
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Quebec.
In the US, there's a record from Jamaica Bay, in New York City, in 1959.
Then, this winter, one was found in the northwestern US in Olympia,
Washington State, on December 20, 2004, and still present as of February 1,
2005.
Also, this year, 2005, in eastern Canada, one was found in Newfoundland,
near St. John's on January 5. What's likely the same bird was in
Topsail, Newfoundland, on February 2, 2005.
During FONT birding & nature tours in Iceland, in
October,
the Redwing is the most common passerine. Large flocks stage there
that time of year for their flights to the British
Isles.
Cooper's Hawk
by a feeder in Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, USA,
January 2005
(photographs by Ed Kendall)
A Razorbill at Barnegat Inlet, New Jersey
in January 2005,
where also the following series of 3 photographs were taken of ducks:
Scoters, King Eiders, and Long-tailed Ducks.
(all of these photos courtesy of Kim Steininger)
Snow Buntings,
photographed in Delaware
in November 2004 by Kim Steininger.
A Peregrine Falcon
over the city of Wilmington, Delaware,
in March 2004
(This photograph kindly the courtesy of Kim Steininger, of Chadds Ford,
PA)
After an
oil-spill off the coast of New Jersey,
some oceanic birds were taken to the Tri-State Bird Rescue Center in
Delaware.
About a week later, some were released back to sea along the New Jersey Coast,
including the Red-necked Grebe (above),
and the Razorbill ( immediately below) and Common Murre (below
that).
(These photographs kindly the courtesy of Kim Steininger, of Chadds Ford,
PA)
Two photographs of a
Trumpeter Swan
in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
(taken by Leroy Laskowski on February 19, 2004)
The above swan came from a place in Ontario, Canada, called Wilcox
Lake,
just south of Georgian Bay.
There's a Trumpeter Swan restocking program in that area of Ontario.
Swans from there don't usually fly as far south as Pennsylvania,
but one has been found south to Tennessee.
A few have flown in recent winters to the Rochester, NY area on the south side
of Lake Ontario. Most of the Wilcox Lake swans have stayed in Ontario.
This Trumpeter Swan was hatched in 2001. It is a male, as indicated by the
silver band on the right leg. (Females are banded on the left leg.) It's tag
number is "767". The bird was tagged and released on May 30,
2003.
What is a "Nelson's Gull ?"
It's a
Glaucous-Herring Gull hybrid,
and this bird apparently is one.
It was photographed along the New Jersey coast,
near the Manasquan Inlet, in February 2004, by Alex Tongas.
This Short-eared Owl
photographed at Brigantine Refuge in New Jersey, on January 1, 2004, the first
day of the year,
was a "first" as well, a lifer, for the photographer, Kim Steininger.
A Marbled Godwit
surrounded by Avocets
at Bombay Hook Refuge in Delaware, October 12, 2003
(this and following photo by Kim Steininger)
Two Shovelers at Bombay Hook in October.
Pomarine Jaeger (left) and
South Polar Skua (right),
during FONT's pelagic trip from Lewes, DE,
May 31, 2003.
(Photos by Robert Rufe)
Some of the 150 Fulmars
seen during the FONT May 26, 2003 pelagic trip
from Barnegat Light, NJ.
And, in the middle, 1 of the about 250 Greater Shearwaters
that were to be seen during the day.
These birds on the water close to the boat just after daybreak.
(Photo by Alan Brady.)
A Ruff (the right-hand
bird) on April 27, 2003,
near Pedricktown, New Jersey.
(Photograph by Paul Driver of Elkins Park, PA.)
Immature male King Eider
at Cape Henlopen, Delaware.
(Photographed in April 2003 by Bill Schreitz of Annapolis, Maryland)
Grebes seen at Bombay Hook
Refuge in Delaware,
the weekend of April 5-6, 2003,
included Red-necked Grebe (above), Horned Grebe,
and Pied-billed Grebe (below).
Photos by Kim Steininger.
The Snowy Owl
that was seen until March 23, 2003
in Brodheadsville, Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
Photo by Paul Leverington.
Nearly a dozen drake
Harlequins at Barnegat Light, New Jersey,
the weekend of December 7, 2002.
There were about 20 Harlequin drakes & ducks there that day.
Photo by David Barbara .