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About Me
- mandrake
- My introduction to birding started very early in life, since my grandfather and father raised pigeons. I was facinated by their behavior. One behavoir was how they would cock their heads to look up when some other bird was flying overhead. When they looked up I would look up trying at first just to spot what ever bird they were looking at and then once I had spotted it, trying to identify it. It was a great introduction to nature and ultimately lead me to get a BS in Biology and then a MS in Ecology. About 15 years ago, while I was serving on my townships Environmental Commission, I offered a series Spring Birding Trips, as a way to update the bird list for my townships' Natural Resource inventory. It was so much fun that I have continued to offer five spring Saturday morning trips through the Jackson Township Community Schoolevery year since then. Participants enjoyed these Jackson trips so much that they started asking me to lead additional trips for them. Now in addition to these spring birding trips in Jackson, I lead day trips to several of New Jersey's great birding destinations including Barnegat Light, Brigantine (Edwin B. Forsythe NWR) and Cape May.