DeKorte Park's Environment Center is closed on Monday Jan.  2. DeKorte Park itself is open. Happy New Year.

The Teaser was a Warbling Vireo. Kudos to all who ID'd it correctly!

Sandy Sorkin took these neat shots of the Eurasian Green-winged Teal at Mill Creek Marsh this week. Clear diagnostics in these pix (white horizontal wing bar, prounounced yellow striping on the head….

(Thanks, Sandy! And thanks to evberyone who went looking!)

This teaser is a toughie — photographed this fall at the Meadowlands Commission's bird banding station by Harrier Meadow.

We have heard of no Long-tailed Duck sightings today so far at DeKorte, but wanted share this nifty shot from yesterday morning by Julia Fuhr. (Thanks, Julia!)

The Meadowlands Commission's next free walk with Bergen County Audubon is this Sunday at 10 a.m. at DeKorte Park.

The walk begins with a short talk and slide show about ducks and raptors that will be soon chilling in the Meadowlands — followed by a walk to see what's already around.

Who knows? Myabe we'll even see some of the recent waxwings, like the one above.

The talk is in the Meadowlands Environment Center.

More information follows.

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Photography and watercolors depicting the changing seasons by Bergen County residents Chris Peters (left) and Bonnie Heilman (right) will line the halls of the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission (NJMC) Flyway Gallery today through Friday, Jan. 27.

The photo at right was taken yesterday as the artists' hung their works in the gallery.

A reception for the artists is scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 4, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The “Four Seasons” centers on North Jersey, the Jersey Shore and New England. Heilman’s paintings include tranquil lake settings and roaring waves crashing down onto shorelines.(Above, Heilman's "Autumn by the Lake."

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Frank M. and Sylvia Kleff of Lyndhurst found a winter-plumage male Long-tailed Duck in Teal Pool just before 10 a.m. today.

It was near the point in the Lyndhurst Nature Reserve when I grabbed a few quick pix.  Still there as of 10:45, under water two-thirds of the time.. (Thanks, Frank and Sylvia!)

N.J. Meadowlands Naturalist Mike Newhouse mentions this duck at the end in our latest column for The South Bergenite. Link is here.

Greg Gard had a nice trifecta on Disposal Road yesterday — a Horned Lark and Ring-necked Pheasant to go with the Bald Eagle above. A good weekend for birding…

(Thanks, Greg!)

Dennis Cheeseman got this nifty shot of Cedar Waxwings feasting on an early Thanksgiving meal of Crabapples in the Lyndhurst Nature Reserve in DeKorte Park on Monday. (Thanks, Dennis!)