This walk kicked off with a Peregrine Falcon perched on a nearby radio tower and kept delighting throughout — right down to the dragonflies we saw at the walk's end.

As we posted yesterday, highlights included a male Eurasian (Common) Green-winged Teal, a couple of American Kestrels and (as always) those nifty old Atlantic Cedar stumps.

Full list follows. 

Meadowlands IBA–Mill Creek Marsh, Hudson, US-NJ
Nov 15, 2011 10 AM – 12 PM
Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s)
Comments: This was the free Third-Tuesday-of-the-Month sponsored by Bergen County Audubon and the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission. Highlights included a male Common Green-winged Teal, Am. Kestrels, and a Peregrine…
30 species

Canada Goose   

Gadwall   

American Black Duck   

Mallard   

Northern Shoveler   

Northern Pintail   

Green-winged Teal        

Double-crested Cormorant   

Great Blue Heron   

Great Egret   

Cooper's Hawk   

Red-tailed Hawk   

American Kestrel   

Peregrine Falcon   

Greater Yellowlegs   

Ring-billed Gull   

Herring Gull   

Great Black-backed Gull   

Mourning Dove   

Belted Kingfisher   

Marsh Wren   

American Robin   

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)   

Song Sparrow   

Swamp Sparrow   

White-throated Sparrow   

Northern Cardinal   

Red-winged Blackbird  

Common Grackle  

House Finch