Next week is packed with cool events in Harrier Meadow and DeKorte Park.

Tuesday from 10 a.m. to noon is a bird-banding demonstration a nature walk in Harrier Meadow.

Wednesday from 8 to 9:30 p.m. is our Bald Eagle e-book launch event at the Meadowlands Environment Center, with Special Guests Kathy Clark of New Jersey’s Endangered and Nongame Species Program and David Wheeler of Conserve Wildlife Foundation.

Friday from 6  to 9 p.m. is BatStock 2014, featuring New Jersey’s Bat Man Joe D’Angeli and a guest appearance by a real Batmobile.

Full listings follow.

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Just off Disposal Road earlier this week.

Jill Homcy writes:

Photographed a young female banded peregrine (14BC) a couple of weeks ago on Valley Brook. Turns out it was banded in Brooklyn, hit by a bus and re-released by Raptor Trust. She looks like she recovered beautifully.

Thanks, Jill!