I just love the colors in this shot by R.T. Geoghan — taken Thursday at deKorte.

Dale Jankowski took the above distant shot of an adult Bald Eagle perched along the Transco Trail on Wednesday around 8 a.m.

Let's hope this beauty makes an appearance or two during this weekend's Meadowlands Festival of Birding!  (Thanks, Dale!)

We continue to get good butterflies at DeKorte, including the Question  Mark above, photographed yesterday along with many other species, including the Eastern Tailed Blue at left.

We say this as a reminder that Meadowlands Festival of Birding on Saturday includes a Butterfly walk at DeKorte from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

To give you an idea of what has been around: Vinny Corsello of the North Jersey Chapter of the North American Butterfly Association visitied DeKorte on Aug. 29 and came up with 21 species.

Full list follows. (Thanks, Vinny!)

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Earlier this week, we reached our 300,000th page view in just over three years.

That's not too bad for a blog that simply celebrates nature within a 30.4-square-mile area that many people gave up for gone not that long ago.

We hit 100,000 views in December 2009, and 200,000 views last November.

We'd like to thank everyone for making this blog a success.

Marco Lips is toting his camera around the Meadowlands, taking some amazing shots. He was nice enough to share a few here. (Thank, Marco!)

More pix follow.

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Our latest batch of photos for the wildnewjersey.tv blog are of The Cove (the Meadowlands Commission's World Trade Center Memorial at DeKorte Park), mating Monarchs, and that American Avocet that was kind enough to visit.

The link is here.

Passing this reminder along from the Hackensack Riverkeeper — the Meadowlands Commission is hosting the event, and the NJMC's Mike Newhouse (above) will be doing a bird-banding demonstration at Harrier Meadow. The festival is a great event for birders of all levels…

We hope you'll join us this weekend, September 10 & 11, at the 8^th Annual Meadowlands Festival of Birding at the Meadowlands Environment Center in Lyndhurst, NJ. This is a really nice event that can either introduce you to the wonderful world of birds, or simply be an opportunity to search for migrating birds in a beautiful setting in the company of some of the region's best birders!

Full info follows. Link to Riverkeeper's Festival Page is here.

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We had a great Labor Weekend Bird Walk on Sunday at DeKorte, with a nice turnout and lots of good birds — including three — count 'em, three — Bald Eagles and a Merlin (above). You can see from John Fagan's photos (above and "on the jump" ) how much Merlins resemble young Peregrine Falcons. Thanks, John!

And thanks to Denise Farrell, Julie McCall and Peggy O'Neill for the list, which follows!

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To see what we might expect in the Meadowlands this month, here are a few highlights from last September — including a full list of birds seen at last year's Meadowlands Festival of Birding. (This year's fest is this weekend!)

Sept. 8: Carlstadt Egret: Radio-transmitter recording

Sept. 13: BirdFest, the Full List

Sept. 17: Caterpillar Lunch

Sept. 23: The Problem of Released Birds

Sept. 27: Losen Slote, Last Day of Summer

This was real toughie. NJMC Naturalist Mike N. decided it was a Mourning Warbler after much deliberation. Congrats to Rick W. for the pun ID, and Julie M. for mentioning the bird in the comments discussion.

Thanks to all for participating.