Spring songs return.
Heard the red-winged blackbirds and robins singing this morning. Feels like the first day of school.
Heard the red-winged blackbirds and robins singing this morning. Feels like the first day of school.
Carolina Wrens are like crickets . . . very easy to hear, very difficult to photograph . . .
I just realized my camera didn't adjust for the end of DST. My observation timestamps are ahead of my upload timestamps. I have been posting into the future.
Need sunnier days soon.
Wish I had known about iNaturalist three years ago.
Today I discovered that there is an entire section dedicated to the Passaic Basin Freshwater Wetlands in New Jersey, the main area I like to explore.
https://www.inaturalist.org/places/passaic-basin-freshwater-wetlands
And there is also a section for the New Jersey Inner Coastal Plain.
https://www.inaturalist.org/places/new-jersey-inner-coastal-plain
And the Pinelands in the Outer Coastal Plain . . .
https://www.inaturalist.org/places/nj-pinelands-national-reserve-nj-us
And the entire Piedmont Uplands . . .
https://www.inaturalist.org/places/piedmont-uplands
I have been experimenting with the latitude and longitude coordinates in map URL's to create bookmarks of interest.
The Great Swamp and surrounding neighborhoods . . .
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=40.76&nelng=-74.40&place_id=any&swlat=40.57&swlng=-74.655
Cape May . . .
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=39.23&nelng=-74.6&place_id=any&swlat=38.9&swlng=-75
A portion of southern New Jersey . . .
An area to track northern sitings of Carolina Chickadees . . . (I wonder if they will ever appear in the Passaic Basin.)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=40.6&nelng=-73.9&place_id=any&swlat=38.9&swlng=-75.5&taxon_id=144814