Besides birds, I often see other critters. This box turtle was trying to cross the Lawrence Hopewell trail this morning.

Wood thrushes sing beautifully but are hard to spot, let alone photograph. Today I got lucky. #BirdoftheDay 🪶 #Birds #BranchingOut

A fun morning in the Pinelands at the Michael Huber preserve. I got a few shots of this delightful black-and-white warbler.

It’s a joy to see cedar waxwings. This one was at the Pole Farm this morning. 🪶 Birds

The American goldfinch is the New Jersey state bird. Here’s one from yesterday, munching on some white fluff at the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm. #Birds

A parent Pacific Great Blue Heron, with a food delivery, receives an enthusiastic welcome from 3 very hungry nestlings! #birds #photography #ECK @everyheron.bsky.social

This indigo bunting was singing sweetly from high up in a tree at the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm this morning, a nice start to my day. #Birds

The Trump administration’s latest attack on higher education. Now the arts are on the chopping block. “The Juilliard School’s undergraduate and graduate programs in music would fail.” Good grief. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

My first youth league team was the Red Sox in 1966. Sixty years later, I bought my first BoSox cap. #MLB

RIP

What is beeping every 30 seconds in my garage??? It's the garage door opener. The backup battery has conked out. Garage door openers have batteries? Who knew?! media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...

"I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it." ~ Rogers Hornsby #quotes #baseball #golf

The last birds of May: here's one of three double-crested cormorants that was perched in a big tree at Lake Carnegie this afternooon. 🪶 #Birds

I got skunked on bird photos this morning. But this red fox stopped in our yard with Mama and two more kits. #Wildlife

Moonlight sonata. I took one of my favorite photos last night. While looking for a scissortail, this eastern meadowlark perched itself atop a nearby tree and sang a beautiful song just long enough for me to position it directly in front of the nearly-full Moon. #Photography #BirdOfTheDay #Birds

Female orchard oriole — beauty, eh? Rosedale Park, Pennington, NJ, this morning. #Birds

Some birds take my breath away. One of them was this blue grosbeak that accommodatingly perched a few yards off a Pole Farm trail this morning. 🪶 #Birds #NaturePhotography

We have a rare bird for our part of the world hanging out at the Dyson Tract swamp off the Delaware & Raritan Canal: a common gallinule. 🪶 #Birds

Princeton's 279th Commencement is in the books. I helped guide nearly 1,500 students into those white chairs covering most of the field at Princeton Stadium.

A Knicks championship followed by the team rebuffing the White House and visiting the mayor would feed this city for centuries.

I cheered when Schlitz was revived a few years back and had some on a visit to Milwaukee. But as of today, it is no longer brewed. Sad stuff. #Beer vinepair.com/articles/pab...

Bald eagle at the Dyson Tract, just off the Delaware & Raritan Canal yesterday. I’m so glad these #birds are on the rebound.

For #WorldBeeDay2026, two bees covered with pollen in hollyhocks. #bee #photography #ECK

I’ve lived in Illinois and New Jersey, states with longstanding reputations for corruption. I thought the federal government had enough checks to stop it in Washington, but here we are. SMH

It was lovely morning for birds and birders at the Dyson Tract along the Delaware and Raritan Canal this morning. A bald eagle and a prothonotary warbler were among the #birds in attendance. 🪶

Tonight’s cocktail — the amazing BASILica with basil from the garden.

Free pass for the jackass. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

This blue grosbeak was hanging out at the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm this morning, seemingly oblivious to me and a couple of other birders checking him out from about 15 feet away. 🦅 #Birds #NaturePhotography

The New York Times on Monday accused the Defense Department of violating the First Amendment by requiring journalists to have an official escort at all times when visiting the Pentagon. The suit is the second time the newspaper has sued over the Trump administration’s restrictions on reporters.

This American robin with a beak full of nesting material made me smile this morning. May he or she bring a smile to you. 🪶 #birds

We have seen this male Rufous Hummingbird near the second nest in the new Great Blue Heron rookery we've been visiting on 6 different days so I decided to try to focus on him in a video. He co-operated by flashing his gorget! #birds #photography #videography #ECK

This wee common yellowthroat was perched at eye level at the Pole Farm this morning, and the light was great. 🪶 #Birds

Warblers were plentiful this morning at the Ted Stiles Preserve in Titusville, New Jersey. Check out this blue-winged warbler singing freely on a tree branch. 🪶 #Birds #NaturePhotography

If Australians greet each other in German, do they say, “g’tag?”

This Northern cardinal serenaded me this morning. What a sight! 🪶 #Birds

I've seen a few Cape May warblers over the years but today was the first time I got one on camera. Gorgeous bird! 🪶 #Birds

I hand't seen a black-and-white warbler in many moons until yesterday when this one showed up at the Michael Huber reserve at Vincentown, New Jersey. 🪶 #Birds

Three lifers today! At the Michael Huber Prairie Warbler Preserve, hooded warbler, yellow-throated vireo and heard a barred owl. 🪶 #Birds

'Who you lookin' at?' This yellow warbler appears to be asking that question as we faced each other this morning at the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm in Lawrence Township, New Jersey. #Birds 🪶 #NaturePhotography

A Northern house wren opens its beak in song. Shot yesterday at the Dyson Tract along the Delaware and Raritan Canal. 🪶 #Birds

One of the aspects of birding that fascinates me is how the same migrant birds find their way to the same places year after year. This morning, an orchard oriole appeared in the same trees where I've seen them before at the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm. 🪶 #Birds

Wow. #Phillies.

BREAKING: 🚨🇮🇱🇮🇷 Archaeologists in the Holy Land just uncovered a 3,000-year-old Israelite tablet… It reads: “Iran is 12 days away from developing a nuclear weapon.”

Mourning doves are common in my neck of the woods, but every so often I see one in flattering light and admire them for their beauty. Such was the case this morning at the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm. #Birds #NaturePhotography 🪶

I love it when the # SFGiants play on the East Coast.

Baltimore oriole high up in a tree, singing his sweet song. Shot yesterday at the Dyson Tract along the Delaware & Raritan Canal. #Birds

Common ravens have been nesting on the Princeton University Chapel the past few years. This one was squawking at passers-by this morning from a tree on a nearby section of campus. 🪶 #Birds