Edith Wallace of the Bergen County Audubon Society, who leads  NJMC/BCAS nature walks in DeKorte Park and does so much for annual Butterfly Day, has been named a recipient of one of five “Women & Wildlife” awards for 2013 by the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey.

Read more about Edith here.

For more information on the award ceremony, Wednesday, Dec. 4, at the Trenton Country Club, click here.  (Congratulations, Edith!)

Our next talk and slide show on the NJMC’s coffee-table book “The Nature of the Meadowlands” is Tues., Nov. 26. at 1 p.m., for the Rutherford Golden Age Club at the Tamblyn Field Civic Center, 30 Woodland Avenue, Rutherford.

The event is free and open to the public.

For more information on the event, call 201-438-5186.

Signed copies of the book are also available for sale in the gift shop at the Meadowlands Environment Center, DeKorte Park, Lyndhurst.  The Star-Ledger’s review of the book is here.

This masked bird is a Common Yellow-throat. Congrats to all who ID’d it correctly.

One week left in the Teaser-palooza contest.  Good luck to all participants!