Mercer Meadows

  • Flicker Coming Our Way

    Flicker Coming Our Way

     One of the highlights of our time at cold, cold Mercer Meadows this week was a Northern Flicker.  He was sitting on a branch deep in the forest.  I told my friend Alison to focus on the flicker while I played a little flicker sound on my iPhone.  And look what happened:

  • Mercer Meadows in the Snow

    Mercer Meadows in the Snow

    I spent a wonderful evening and morning trying my best to photograph the short eared owls at Mercer Meadows in New Jersey.  It was colder than cold.  I went with my friend Alison and we both were layered from head to toe but still frozen after five hours in the cold.  We saw two…

  • It’s Freezing but the Short Eared Owls Don’t Care

    It’s Freezing but the Short Eared Owls Don’t Care

    It’s the coldest its been in years, or at least it feels like it.  Tom and I are having our kitchen redone from top to bottom, but why the heck are we doing this in JANUARY!!!  It will get done. In the meantime, I went with my friend Alison to Mercer Meadows in New…