To celebrate August and in honor of Bruce Springsteen’s Meadowlands concerts earlier this week, name this tune:

   (Clue: Bruce did a cover version of this song on his new EP.)

   (Clue 2: It was originally made popular by the Byrds.)

Birder Ray Duffy reports:

   I visited DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst Thursday afternoon around 3:45 p.m.  It was low tide when I arrived and the pools filled up. 
   The three highlight birds were:
    * The juvenile Tricolored Heron which is still present along the Marsh Discovery Trail.  He got flushed as I walked the trail and he camped out near the group of phragmites near the Environmental Center. 
  * I also spotted a Scaup.  I think it is a Lesser, but it’s kind of tough to tell as he was feeding in the mud, I’ve included pics, I’d appreciate a second opinion. 
  *I also spotted a Laughing Gull, my first for Bergen county this year.
   
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