This week's "Focus on the Meadowlands" post on the wildnewjersey.tv features:

* a Northern Shoveler (at right)

* A recent Lesser Yellowlegs at DeKorte (go figure)

* DeKorte Park's amazing observatory.

The link is here.

Dennis Cheeseman managed to photograph the Western Palm Warbler seen by Rick Wright at DeKorte yesterday.

Not the most elegant shot, but…  (Thanks, Dennis and Rick!)

Rick Wright posted on JerseyBirds that "there was a Western Palm Warbler in the parking lot of the Meadowlands Commission Dekorte Park [Wednesday] afternoon, looking quite at home in the warm weather. The pond on nearby Clay Avenue had three Greater Yellowlegs."

Thanks, Rick.

In honor of Groundhog Day, here's a video we did in June 2008, before the blog was up and running.

We will check on Lyndhurst Larry today and report any activity.

The one-minute video features a woodchuck looking out of its den on a path in DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst, when Junior butts in. (Best played with audio on.)

For more information on this abundant Meadowlands mammal, click here.

Note: We realize that it is a bad idea to take hang out in front of birds' nests or mammals' dens in an effort to get a family portrait. The animals feel threatened and cannot escape.

For this video, we used a trick we learned minutes earlier from a professional video cameraman: You put the video-cam on a tripod not too far from entrance, hit "record," and walk away.

Later on, you come back, retrieve the camera and see what you caught on video. 🙂