Monthly Archives: August 2016

Don Torino’s Life in the Meadowlands: Nature Keeps Us Forever Young

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This week I found myself on my hands and knees crawling around a thick patch of Milkweed on my quest to find some Monarch caterpillars.  My eyes, not nearly what they use to be, now find it much harder to find the insects, birds and other critters that I once found so easily not that very long ago.

Observing the natural world on all fours at 60-plus years old may not be a pretty sight for the casual observer, especially on my repeated attempts to get back on my feet, but I felt like I was 10-years old again. I could almost hear my father whistling for me to come home for dinner. I was just about ready to brush the mud from my knees and run home before I got myself into trouble…again.

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The Verdict Is In

After much back and forth concerning this “mystery bird” photographed on the Birding By Boat trip yesterday, it was decided that it is an Immature Female Hooded Merganser. We’ll have more Birding By Boat photos tomorrow, along with Don Torino’s latest Life in the Meadowlands column!

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