The South Bergenite has an informative article about the NJMC’s plans to repair DeKorte Park’s beloved Marsh Discovery Trail, seriouly damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
Key bit of info: The new trail will have cedar planking instead of plastic, which could get really hot in summer.
Link is here.
Dennis Cheeseman writes:
Skimmers at Mill Creek Marsh today at lunch. (Thanks, Dennis!)
Upon further review, we think that this sequence is of an adult male Osprey stopping by to see his mate, who is watching young fledglings. (Very hard to monitor from Valley Brook Ave., our usual vantage point.)
If you want to see how a Black Skimmer catches fish, check out these photo taken at DeKorte Park this weekend by Roy Woodford. (Thanks, Roy!)
At Sunday’s reception for the Flyway Gallery’s “Nature of the Meadowlands” exhibit, many of the coffee-table book’s contributors were on hand.
They are (left to right) illustrator Tom Yezerski, photographer Ron Shields, author Jim Wright, photographer Regina Geoghan, contributor Dan McDonough, photographer Sandy Sorkin, photographer Marco Van Brabant, and contributor Joe McKay.
Contributors to the show who could attend are Jeff Nicol and Dennis Cheeseman.
The show runs through Butterfly Day in late July — be sure to stop by and see these stunning images from the Meadowlands. (Thanks, all! And thanks to Pam Mistretta for taking the photo, and to Regina Geoghan for doing a little tweaking on it.
This revived weekly feature is brought to you by the Meadowlands Commission’s Parks Department to give you some historical background on how local places, landmarks, and geographical features got their name.
MILL CREEK POINT (WHEN IT WAS A MARINA)
One of Secaucus’ early grist mills, built around 1840, stood on the left bank of Mill Creek.
For half of the 20th Century, the property functioned as a marina, boat ramp and as a popular town pub, Tony’s Old Mill Inn, thought to built on the remains of the former gristmill.
The town purchased the property in 1990 for use as a park, and the Meadowlands Commission and the town developed it into a waterfront park. A millstone has been incorporated into the park’s logo (right).
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We had a great guided walk on Sunday, followed by a reception for the gallery show “The Nature of the Meadowlands,” featuring 60 images from the NJMC’s coffee table book.
Highlights for the walk included a great aerial show by Black Skimmers (for early arrivals), great looks at a Baltimore Oriole, an appearance by a Brown Thrasher and the world’s most amorous carp (above). We saw a total of 44 species of birds.
Fred Nisenholz provided the photos accompanying this post. (Thankls, Fred!)
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Due to Internet snafus, we were unable to post the full list of birds from Sunday’s DeKorte walk. We hope to be up and running later, with our regular posts to resume then.
To help figure out what we might see in the Meadowlands this month, we thought we’d look back to what we saw last June. Just click on the text to link to the post.
June 4: Meadowlands Marsh Sounds Website
June 5: Oriole Jamboree at DeKorte Park!
June 10: Mickey Raine’s Awesome Black Skimmer Shots
June 11: Polyphemus Moth in the Meadowlands
June 13: All About the Rare Meadowlands Treehog
June 16: Angelo Marra — Clapper Rail in Flight at MCM
June 25: Chris Takacs’ Wily Coyote Shot!
June 25: Regina Geoghan’s DeKorte Shots
Our next free walk with the Bergen County Audubon is a plant walk at DeKorte on Sunday, June 8. The walk features the incredible Edith Wallace, who will discuss the secret life of the park’s plants in DeKorte Park, or something equally interesting, along the way.
Full listing follows.
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