Edwin B. Forsythe Wildlife Refuge

**Alysser** · 06-09-2013, 09:57 PM

I headed out to Edwin B. Forsythe NWR in south Jersey the other day and thought you guys would enjoy a few pictures. This place is glorious for birders, I cannot believe how much I saw. Nothing too exotic, but I did enjoy seeing my favorite birds, Ospreys! Nothing quite like them

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Here's an American Oystercatcher just sitting on her eggs, really neat looking birds they are!

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A Diamondback Terrapin!

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Red-winged blackbirds, these guys are all over the place but they're quite cute.

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My favorites, the Osprey

See the little fuzzy chick! They were feeding him a fish.

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Iridescent Ibis, can now cross that off my birding list!

Continued!

**Alysser** · 06-09-2013, 10:05 PM

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Here's the cuties reaction to me getting out of the car

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Egrets tend to be all over the place this time of year, but I love watching them actually hunt.

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Curious Gull!

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And a cute little Barn Swallow! I love Tree Swallows, but didn't see many of them, but they are great looking little birds with beautiful plumage.

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This is the view of Atlantic City, that boring "adult" place with all the Casinos

The neat thing about Forsythe is that they have an 8-mile road out into the salt marshes where you can literally run into ANYTHING that's out there. You're not allowed off the road of course but I was maybe 4 feet from that terrapin! Very cool area to explore, and photo creds go to my friend Devin, mostly - they are from his Camera but I did take a few

Recently at work I have found a Belted Kingfisher hole very close to the Nature Center and I saw him out while I was giving a tour yesterday so I couldn't get very close - but I will be stalking him for sure.

I don't know if you guys knew I was this much of a bird nerd, but now I am "out" I guess, so to speak.