We have been getting great birds in Harrier Meadow the past few weeks.
See for yourself on Tuesday when Mike Newhouse of the Meadowlands Commission will present a bird-banding demonstration, followed by September's Third-Tuesday-of-the-Month walk.
As of Friday noon, the American Avocet was still there, next to a Caspian Tern (above). Also present — a Northern Harrier, several Am. Kestrels and a pair of Peregrines.
Full listing follows.
Our latest batch of photos for the wildnewjersey.tv blog are of a young Forster's Tern, a Clear-winged Moth (we had both species this week), and a close-up of a Yellow-breasted Chat, banded recently by NJMC Naturalist Michael Newhouse.
The link is here.
In its current editions, The South Bergenite has a nice article by Brian anderson on the recent Meadowlands Festival of Birding. Area birders Chris Takacs and Billy Kaselow are quoted, as is keynote speaker Sandy Komito, who was the subject of the birding best-seller, "The Big Year."
The link is here.
On Tuesday, we posted a bonus Teaser, a bird that caused much consternation at the bird-banding demonstration at last Saturday's Meadowlands Festival of Birding.
A couple of birders asked for more data about the bird, which the NJMC's bird-bander extraordinaire Mike Newhouse is supplying here.
The bird weighed 12 grams, and its wing chord was 70 mm.
We also had a request for a view of the bill from underneath, but we did not take any.
(We did seem to hear some rumblings about an Acadian Flycatcher….)
Another view of the bird follows.