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Cape May, New Jersey
10-6-13
Last year (October 6-12) I traveled to southern New Jersey for "Cape May Magic" an American Birding Association workshop conducted by Mark Garland and Pat & Clay Sutton . It was a wonderful week of birding and learning about birds, although it was rainy and very windy. The storm, a nor'easter (a cyclonic storm that moves along the east coast of North America. It’s called “nor’easter” because the winds over coastal areas blow from a northeasterly direction) , lasted most of the week. As a result, the conditions were generally very challenging for bird photography. Despite the weather, I enjoyed it so much that I spent another five days there in mid-October 2014. Due to its location at the end of a peninsula bordered by Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, Cape May , New Jersey is a migrant trap and one of the top birding destinations in North America.
This 3rd winter Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) T76 was banded as a chick in Maine by Dr. Julie Ellis , July 2010 (The Gulls of Appledore) .
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@Sonja: Ja, Alterung Möwen ist interessant und kompliziert, weil sie so lange, um zu reifen zu nehmen! Vielen Dank für Ihren Kommentar, Sonja.
@Devi: Thank you very much, Devi!
@Steven: Thank you, Steven. Interesting observation. The background is dune grasses and it was quite windy that day. Fortunately that helped to create that blur.
@Steven: Thank you, Steven. I wasn't aware that I had hit 1400. Also forgot how to check that. My posting has slowed down quite a bit lately due to work and home responsibilities, etc. However, I definitely intend to keep on going! Regarding my previous answer to your comment on my last image-I forgot to mention that there was a fence behind the gull in front of the dune grasses, and that probably caused the vertical blur.