Birder Michael Britt reports:

I birded DeKorte for about 4 hours today…no White Ibis for me [but three Kestrels].

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  We did see three marbled godwits (thanks to birder Fred Weber), a semi-palmated plover, two peregrine falcons, an osprey, and a diamondback terrapin (below) — among other sightings on two trips to Harrier Meadow today.
   The Meadow will be open to the public on a limited basis during the Meadowlands Festival of Birding, and we are in the process of setting up some guided tours of the site.
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   In mid-July, we reported that Meadowlands Commission naturalists had installed perches in the tidal impoundment by the Marsh Discovery Trail in Lyndhurst, in hopes that egrets would perch there when the water levels were high.

   Although the egrets were a little slower on the uptake than we had hoped, we are now happy to report: Bingo.