My latest column for The Record is on how digital photogrpahy has changed birding. The link is here.

The photo above, which appears with the column, was taken with a relatively inexpensive digital camera last summer in Massachusetts.

The Record ran my shot of a Harbor Seal at River Barge Park in Carlstadt today.

More pix and an interview with the director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine are here.

Additional photo from Meadowlands Nature Blog, with more links, is here.

A reader writes:

How to stop a pesky robin from crashing in to our picture window every few seconds for a month.  

Nothing worked except hanging strips of plastic bag outside of window so the air moved them.  I tried everything else.  

Hopefully, this year we won't be visited, but it happened for two straight years now.

I even got a plastic owl, and when that didn't work, I drew a large, nasty-looking bird of prey picture and hung it inside of my window thinking it would scare the robin away.

Anyone have an idea?

This is a tad beyond the Celery Farm and nature, but just a head's up to fans of the Allendale Bar & Grill that there's a great Web interview on the Kunisch brothers here.

AB&G has always been supportive of the Fell House... Good to see the Kunisches recognized ...

Greg Gard writes:

I just saw Rob Fanning's Celery Farm report and realized that I've never shared my last year's photographs with you. I've taken them about the the same time of the year, February-March, at the Celery Farm.

I hope you like them... (Thanks, Greg!)

Two Hooded Merganser shots follow.