Beginning tomorrow (Tuesday, 11/19) through Friday (11/22), the Valley Brook Ave. approach to DeKorte Park and Disposal Road will  undergo significant repairs as the road is excavated, milled and paved.

If you are visiting DeKorte Park or Disposal Road, please use the Schuyler Avenue/Disposal Road alternate route for the remainder of this week.

If you must use Valley Brook, PLEASE proceed with caution…..be alert, drive slowly and obey the flagman’s instructions. And be aware that Disposal Road will be busier than usual, so please be alert and drive slowly.  Sorry for any inconvenience.

Each Monday, we post the upcoming events for the Meadowlands Commission and the Meadowlands Environment Center  through the upcoming weekend.

This week’s main event is tomorrow’s Third-Tuesday-of-the-Month walk — at Mill Creek Marsh.

Details follow. Continue reading →

Thinking of visiting DeKorte Park or nearby Disposal Road this weekend?

To see what’s being reported at DeKorte on eBird Hotspot Explorer, click here.

To see what’s being reported along Disposal Road on eBird Hotspot Explorer, click here.

The Meadowlands Environment Center is offering a pretty cool owl show this weekend.

The folks at the Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge are bringing several live rehabbed owls, including  an Eastern Screech Owl.

The refuge sits on 174 wooded acres on the edge of the New Jersey Pinelands.

The refuge includes the Woodford Nature Center, an outdoor housing area with more than 60 native residents, and a wildlife rehabilitation hospital.

The overall mission of the refuge is to serve as a community resource on the importance of protecting and enhancing healthy ecosystems for all.

More info follows Continue reading →

Our next free guided walk is Tuesday, Nov. 19, at 10 a.m. at the nifty Mill Creek Marsh. Who knows? Maybe we’ll even see a Eurasian Green-winged Teal…

To see what’s being seen there, click here.

Details follow. Continue reading →

It’s an Eastern Phoebe. Congratulations to everyone who ID’d it correctly.

Who’s this? …

This is part of this blog’s nine-week Teaser-palooza competition, open to all.  More on the Teaser-palooza can be found here.

(A big thanks to Mike and his terrific volunteers!)

Each Monday, we post the upcoming events for the Meadowlands Commission and the Meadowlands Environment Center  through the upcoming weekend.

This week’s main event is a program on owls — on Sunday at 1 p.m. in the MEC. (The Long-eared Owl above was photographed in the Meadowlands a few years back.)

Details follow.

Continue reading →

Thinking of visiting DeKorte Park or nearby Disposal Road this weekend?

To see what’s being reported at DeKorte on eBird Hotspot Explorer, click here.

To see what’s being reported along Disposal Road on eBird Hotspot Explorer, click here.

Ah, the age-old question: Is this bird a Sharpie or a Coop — a Sharp-shinned Hawk or a Cooper’s Hawk?

The bird was seen perched briefly near the banding station off Disposal Road late last month.

Seemed like a Sharpie to us. What do you think?

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