Bird vs. Fish

Cape May State Park

In the morning, we walked the corridor between the Higbee fields until it got too muddy. Then, we walked the connector from the meadows to the state park. We looped around the monarch trail before heading back for the evening.

Meadows

We walked around one of the best birding spots in Cape May this evening! We took the east spur trail and crossed all of the dune crossings to see what was around.

David Douglass Sr. Memorial

We took in the dusk from this little park, enjoying the gulls lingering along the jetty after sunset.

Beach plum

Today we strolled the woodland marsh trail while enjoying our favorite local farm!

Higbee Fields

We spent most of our time in field 1 in the later hours of the morning, and moved onto field 2 by early afternoon.

Some R Coding Principles…

I’m not the first to write about this, nor will I be the last, but I think it’s worth passing on some general concepts in the plainest possible terms here. What I chose to include is based on conversations with newer R users who may not have any coding experience prior to using the language […]

Vis MiG

Today was one of the most incredible days I’ve ever had! I went to DE ave. where the road ends at Cape May county park. I met some new friends over a spectacular sight: thousands of warblers migrating down the road, many at eye level! They were flying past us into the hedge row. I […]

Visible Migration

This morning, I went in search of #vismig to “the place” in Cape May: Higbee dike! It ended up being a relatively slow morning, so I meandered to the meadows. I took the main trail down over the dunes, but didn’t walk all the way out to the beach. I then took the dune trail […]

Black Rails in Action!

Every birder holds their breath for a chance to see a rare rail, and I love coming across stories of those who “won the bird lottery.” This album below was especially inspiring and basically makes me want to live at the meadows; click through for the photographer’s story in the captions! The photos were taken […]

Higbee

I finally went to “the” migration headquarters, and learned about the field numbering system. I walked around field 4 before taking a break from the sun. Then, I walked the green trail at Cox Hall Creek in the evening!