On Tuesday, we asked:What is this — found on the Kingsland Overlook in DeKorte Park?
The answer: Staghorn Sumac. Congrats to Mary for the correct answer.
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Here Come the Butterflies
Pearl Crescent
Just in time for Sunday afternoon’s butterfly walk at DeKorte Park, the butterflies are starting to arrive. You don’t have to be a beginner to participate! Not a lot of butterflies yet, but it’s getting better.
More pix follow.
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Clear-winged Moth at DeKorte
Seen Friday at lunchtime at DeKorte by Jill’s Butterfly Garden.
Later today: Butterflies are here!
Spotted ‘Piper Spotted on Pipe
Dennis Cheeseman caught the action this week — looks like Disposal Road…
Sunday: Two Great Free DeKorte Walks
The Meadowlands Commission and the Bergen County Audubon Society are teaming for two great walks this Sunday.
At 10 a.m., we celebrate the fourth anniversary of our first First-Sunday walk with a walk around DeKorte Park, looking for Black Skimmers, Forster’s Terns, orioles, dragonflies, butterflies and more.
We hope to check out the newly reopened Lyndhurst Nature Reserve as well. Full details below. (Bring sunblock, bug spray and water).
If you can stay for the 1 p.m. Butterflies for Beginners Talk and walk, bring a lunch and sit outside or in the Marshview Pavilion and enjoy the sights.
At 1 p.m., we”ll start our Butterflies for Beginners event with a talk in the MEC auditorium. then walk around DeKorte park to see what little treasures we might find.
Should be a great day. We hope you can join us!
More info on both events follows.
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Nature’s Fireworks @ DeKorte
Photographed yesterday. And yes, the butterflies are beginning to arrive!
Let Freedom Ring!
Happy Independence Day from the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission!
See More Fireworks from River Barge Park July 4
River Barge Park is open tomorrow night (July 4) for folks who want to see the Macy’s and Newark fireworks displays. Be sure to bring folding chairs!
Sean Sullivan took several nifty photos of the Secaucus fireworks on Tuesday night. for nj.com, including the one above. The link is here,
DeKorte Park Is Open on July 4
DeKorte Park is open on July 4 but the park’s Meadowlands Environment Center (gift shop, bathrooms) will be closed.
Roy Woodford: Mill Creek Point Flycatcher
Roy Woodford writes:
Stopped by Mill Creek Point Saturday morning. I haven’t been there in a while.
I’m glad I did … There was a very cooperative Willow Flycatcher singing like crazy about 50 feet up the boardwalk.
Never put the camera away when the clouds come out … Cloudy days often yield the best even lighting and the backgrounds become so smooth.
(Thanks, Roy!)