It looked pretty serious when we saw them at 7:45 a.m. yesterday on Disposal Road…

Photo that follows is after we told 'em to knock it off…
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Allan Sanford writes:

This weekend was great for diversity in birding at DeKorte Park. Everything from shorebirds to songbirds to raptors.

I was at the park both Saturday and Sunday and you could see the buzz of people around. The park was busy, especially on Sunday.

Ruby Crowned Kinglets, Palm Warblers, Yellow Rumps were abundant. I was able to see the Blue Gray Gnatcatcher up on the upper trail through park.

The Spotted Sandpiper left retention pond and is out in the water behind the Amvet signs. Caught him hunting.

As I was leaving the park an Osprey put on a show for me. These are some of the shots.

Two more pix follow. Thanks, Allan!

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We had more than 30 participants and more than 50 bird species on today's Bergen County Audubon Society/New Jersey Meadowlands Commission walk in Harrier Meadow.

Highlights included an Am. Gold Plover, Pectoral Sandpipers, Least Sandpipers and a multitude of other birds.

Will post the full list on Thursday.

4 p.m.

Four of us looked for American Golden Plover in both impoundments from 2:30 to 3:15 p.m. — no luck.

Mike Newhouse will be at Harrier Wednesday morning at 7:30 a.m. See below.

1 p.m.

Plover has relocated with several yellowlegs to the first impoundment in Harrier Meadow as of 1 p.m. (Photo above by Chris Takacs; thanks Chris!)

We will look for the bird at 2:30 today, and NJMC naturalist Mike Newhouse will look for the bird at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Directions to Harrier Meadow are on the blog (left-hand column)…

Park inside the gate to Harrier Meadow.  PSE&G vehicles are using the usual parking area….

Harrier Meadow is closed to the public; no trespassing, please!!

We had an amazing Third-Tuesday walk today at Harrier Meadow, highlighted by a (semi-distant) American Golden Plover on the far mud flat. (Great spotting by Rick Wright; thanks, Rick!)

More pix follow.  Full list later this week.
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Dennis Cheeseman asks, "How old is this Bald Eagle?"  (Photographed by Dennis in the Meadowlands. Thanks, Dennis!)

Roy Woodford writes:

Spring has really sprung at DeKorte … what a fantastic weekend.

The Kingsland Overlook Trail has been overrun by Yellow-rumped Warblers, Palm Warblers, and Ruby-crowned Kinglets.  

I wish I had another camera with me … one of the Kinglets decided to land on my lens hood.  I had to keep backing up … they were flying toward me more often than not.

I even managed to convince the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher to sit still for about 1.5 seconds.

It just doesn't get much better than this.  (Thanks, Roy!)

More pix follow. Posting Allan Sanford's photos tomorrow.

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Celebrate the end of income-tax-filing season with this Harrier Meadow spring bird walk in North Arlington on Tuesday, Apr. 16.

We’ll walk around the 70-acre natural area, which is normally closed to the public, and look for Ospreys, early warblers, herons, egrets, shorebirds and a snipe or two.

The tide should be out, so the mud flats should have good birds.

The walk starts at 10 a.m. — please park inside the Harrier Meadow gate as a result of PSE&G activity…

Full listing follows.

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                                                  Photo by Tyson Trish/Record Staff Photographer
The Record's Mary Jo Layton wrote a dandy story in Monday's editions about the Meadowlands Commission's Earth Day event at the Ridgewood Library, featuring Governor Kean.

The link is here.

Today's featured photographer is Ada Baisre.

Ada writes:

I am a physician and work as a Neuropathologist at New Jersey Medical School/University Hospital.

I used to live in Kearny and moved to Manhattan in 2005 but I have visited DeKorte Park at least once a month for the past seven years.

I love the different seasons and the different flaura and fauna that it brings to Lyndhurst. 

Photography is my hobby and I post most of my pics in Facebook and some in Flickr." 

You can see more of Ada's work here.  Two more of her photos follow. (Thanks, Ada!)

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