The Eastern Bluebird cache is located at New Jersey Audubon's magnificent The Scherman Hoffman Center for Conservation and Environmental Education. The Scherman Hoffman Wildlife Sanctuary located in Bernardsville, Basking Ridge, and Harding Township, NJ. The Audubon group granted permission for this cache placement.
The Eastern Bluebird is well named, for he wears a coat of the purest, richest, and most gorgeous blue on back, wings, and tail; no North American bird better deserves the name, for no other flashes before our admiring eyes so much brilliant blue. It has been said that he carries on his back the blue of heaven and the rich brown of the freshly turned earth on his breast; but who has ever seen the bluest sky as blue as the bluebird's back?" (Quote describing the eastern bluebird from the Arthur Cleveland Bent series on the Birds of North America.)
The Eastern Bluebird is found throughout New Jersey in appropriae habitat. Some bluebirds will over-winter in the state. Bluebirds are usually found in fields, open woodlands, parks or along golf courses or other open areas, including suburban locations with open spaces and scattered tress. The eastern bluebird has a musical flight call that often reveals its presence.
