Mike Gempp reports:

"There were two skimmers working the east end of the Teal Pool at 6:30 this [Thursday] evening. They worked the area for about ten minutes. It was cloudy and gray, so maybe that's what brought them out early."

(Thanks, Mike.)

Ron Shields took this photo of New Jersey's state bird earlier this week by the Carillon Disposal Road and, lo and behold, it was banded.

We figured it was one of the birds that NJMC Naturalist Mike Newhouse and his crew banded by the nearby Erie Landfill, but we figured wrong.

All we can make out on the band are the letters "ABRE." We are trying to discern what that stands for.

Anybody help out?  (Thanks, Ron!)