This Great (Red, White and) Blue Heron made its presence known yesterday morning at DeKorte. Thanks much to Mickey Raine for these great photos!

Thanks to Mickey Raine for these fantastic pre-sunrise shots that he took at DeKorte yesterday. Awesome work Mickey!

Join the Bergen County Audubon Society on Tuesday, Feb. 20, for a guided nature walk at Mill Creek Point Park in Secaucus. They’ll be keeping an eye out for ducks, eagles and other wintering birds. For more info contact Don Torino at greatauk4@gmail.com or 201-230-4983.

Besides leading field trips, doing nature programs and oh yes even going to work, I spend many of my days beginning in January doing observations for the NJDEP of the Ridgefield Park Eagle’s nest. If you would have told me 10 years ago that I would be watching a nesting pair of Bald Eagles in the middle of New Jersey’s major highways, surrounded by concrete and steel and oh yes hundreds of thousands of people, I would have said you should go lie down while I call the doctor. Because that could never happen here.

Yet as we all know it has. Not only in Ridgefield Park but in many places in our most densely populated State that we call home. In fact, it has happened about 200 times now, in our most urban and rural parts of the Garden State.

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Join the Bergen County Audubon Society next Tuesday, Feb. 20, for a guided nature walk at Mill Creek Point Park in Secaucus. They’ll be keeping an eye out for ducks, eagles and other wintering birds. For more info contact Don Torino at greatauk4@gmail.com or 201-230-4983.

Carolina Wren

Thanks to Dennis Cheeseman for sending in these photos taken earlier today at Mill Creek Marsh. Not sure what kind of bird the Northern Harrier is carrying, or at least what’s left of it…

Downy Woodpecker

Northern Harrier

After just about finishing up our Super Bird Sunday nature walk our hardy group casually strolled under one of the splendid River Birch trees that border the Meadowlands Environment Center. As I glanced at a branch just slightly above my head what looked like a small clump of dried leaves caught my attention.

After closer examination, this little, unobtrusive, dangling dried cluster turned out to be something much more wonderful … .a Polyphemus moth cocoon !

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Wow! Thanks Mickey Raine for sending in these gorgeous sunset shots! (taken at DeKorte this past Saturday)

House Sparrows

As promised, here’s our second batch of photos from the BCAS Super Bird Sunday walk. Many thanks to Joe Koscielny for sharing!

House Sparrow

House Finch

Bald Eagle

Northern Cardinal