Avian Ecologist

Pelagic

Today we went on a pelagic, which was amazing save for my first real bout of seasickness! I meant to give a thorough “gear review” for this post, but in reality, I was pretty distracted much of the trip. Taking note of how cold I felt was very much dwarfed by how sick I was. […]

Warfield Pond

Today, I took my partner for a walk around this local park.

Swan Harbor

This afternoon, we walked the loop trail and the walkway to the water’s edge.

Cape May Point State Park

Today, we continued our exploring by walking the duck pond and plover trails. We also walked the dead end trail to what we assumed was the property line (by the posted sign).

Cape May State Park

In the morning, we walked the corridor between the Higbee fields until it got too muddy. Then, we walked the connector from the meadows to the state park. We looped around the monarch trail before heading back for the evening.

Meadows

We walked around one of the best birding spots in Cape May this evening! We took the east spur trail and crossed all of the dune crossings to see what was around.

David Douglass Sr. Memorial

We took in the dusk from this little park, enjoying the gulls lingering along the jetty after sunset.

Beach plum

Today we strolled the woodland marsh trail while enjoying our favorite local farm!

Higbee Fields

We spent most of our time in field 1 in the later hours of the morning, and moved onto field 2 by early afternoon.

Some R Coding Principles…

I’m not the first to write about this, nor will I be the last, but I think it’s worth passing on some general concepts in the plainest possible terms here. What I chose to include is based on conversations with newer R users who may not have any coding experience prior to using the language […]