Want to hear (and hopefully see) American Woodcocks peenting and possibly displaying?

The Meadowlands Commission and the Bergen County Audubon Society are holding a free bonus walk this Thursday at Laurel Hill in Secaucus.

We'll meet in the ballfields parking lot at Laurel Hill at 5 p.m., or you can meet in DeKorte Park's visitor's parking lot and follow Jim Wright — he'll be leaving DeKorte at 4:30 p.m.

We will also look for the Laurel Hill ravens and any other interesting birds we can find.

Directions to Laurel Hill are on the left-hand side of this blog.

Briefing peenting audio is here (might have to turn up the volume):

Download DS_20071.

To rsvp, contact Don Torino of the BCAS at greatauk4@aol.com or 201-230-4983. (And a big thanks for the Am. Woodcock illustration to BCAS!)

We were remiss in not posting this sooner…

Don Torino reports: "Had a great walk today We had 23 participants… Some of the highlights were over a hundred Canvasbacks, Belted Kingfisher, Northern Harrier and, to top it off, a Bald Eagle at the end." 

(Thanks, Don, and thanks to Marie Longo for the photo!)

Full list from Friday is below — we'll post the list from today's walk tomorrow…

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