New Purple Martin Box for Harrier Meadow!

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It wasn't quite the flag-raising at Iwo Jima, but the Meadowlands Commission successfully hoisted a Purple Martin nesting box atop a 10-foot-high pole in Harrier Meadow last week.  (From left to right, NJMC naturalists Gabrielle Bennett-Meany and Mike Newhouse, with volunteer Chris Takacs.

Entire sequence (for Purple Martin nesting box junkies only) follows.

Tomorrow: the new box's first occupant.


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