After Sunday’s walk, the BCAS’ Marie Longo tagged a Monarch, and has the pix to prove it. (Thanks, Marie!)
More on Monarch tagging here.
Monthly Archives: September 2014
MEC Schedule of Events for Autumn
The Meadowlands Environment Center’s Fall Schedule of Events is now available.
You can download a copy here:
Remembering 9/11
The New Jersey Meadowlands Commission rededicated its World Trade Center Memorial Cove a year ago today, Sept. 11.
The memorial site, located in DeKorte Park, provides a clear view of the lower Manhattan skyline, including the new One World Trade Center.
The Memorial Cove consists of a free-form wooden deck with two projecting piers, suggesting shadows of the fallen towers. The piers are proportioned after the World Trade Center, and each one has 110 boards representing the 110 floors of the towers.
The memorial also includes a steel silhouette of the towers and a spot from which visitors can view where the towers stood against the Manhattan skyline. The NJMC’s 9/11 Memorial was originally dedicated in March 2003.
The World Trade Center Memorial Cove sustained significant damage from Superstorm Sandy and has been reconstructed.
Flooding from Superstorm Sandy ripped the deck and projecting piers from their supporting pilings, requiring the entire deck to be rebuilt. The dedication plaque and serpentine benches were salvaged and reinstalled.
Plantings at the site were redesigned, using mostly native species, to add color and to attract butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds.
The quote on the plaque is from the 19th century American orator Robert Ingersoll. It reads: “In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.”
DeKorte Butterflies
Regina Geoghan writes:
Stopped by briefly just after noontime on Monday and was pleasantly surprised after waiting a bit to see two beautiful Monarchs, a few clear-winged moths and a little Zabulon butterfly.
Thank, Regina!
Coming Tuesday: Answers To Bird Quiz
In case you wondering what the IDs were on the birds from yesterday’s mega-teaser, we are posting answers next Tuesday — another reason to go on living..
Congrats to Patrick Carney, the only person bold enough to take a crack at this.
SP, DD
SP, DD = Same [American White] Pelican, Different Day.
(Day 67 of its stay at DeKorte Park, to be exact.)
Our Next Walk + Bird-banding @ Harrier
One of our best walks of the year is the autumn Harrier Meadow Walk and Bird-banding Demonstration, featuring the NJMC’s Mike Newhouse (above) and his awesome band of bird-banders.
The free walk, sponsored by the NJMC and the Bergen Audubon Society, is next Tuesday (Sept. 16) from 10 a.m. to noon.
Details follow. Continue reading
Our Free Bald Eagle E-book Has Landed
“Bald Eagles of the Meadowlands & Beyond” is a free, 62-page online book about our national symbol’s remarkable comeback in northern New Jersey and across America.
The lavishly illustrated e-book, sponsored by the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission and Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey, features chapters by raptor expert Scott Weidensaul, Kathy Clark of the N.J. Endangered and Nongame Species Program, and the American Eagle Foundation. The full-color book also showcases images by 19 nature photographers and five illustrators.
Contributing photographers: Louis Balboa, Jerry Barrack, Al Barrera, Jana Brusich, Dave Chanda of N.J. Division of Fish and Wildlife, Kathy Clark of N.J. ENSP, Greg Gard, Mike Girone, Muhammad Faizan, Alice Leurck, Bill Menzel, Greg Miller, Doug Morel, Fred Nisenholz, Allan Sanford, Ron Shields, Mick Valent of N.J. ENSP, Roy Woodford and the NJMC’s Jim Wright.
Read or download the free e-book on your computer.
To turn the pages of the e-book, click the lower right-hand corner.
Read or download the free e-book on your tablet.
Purchase a hard cover or soft cover print-on-demand copy of the book at cost.
Note: Due to the nature of on-demand printing, these books can be a tad expensive.
Sunday’s Walk: The Full List
Had great weather and a great group for Sunday’s Back-To-Football Walks. Four participants each won a high-quality Peter Max Meadowlands poster for beeing the first to see a bird named after an NFL team — Giant (Great) Egret, Giant (Great) Blue Heron, Falcon and Osprey (Seahawk).
One of the highlights was a Merlin that kindly perched nearby. Photo above was by the quick-on-the-trigger Alice Leurck. (Thanks, Alice!)
Full list follows. Continue reading
George the Pelican Continues at DeKorte
Saw him this a.m. just after 9 a.m. in his usual far-off place. This is Day 66 of his stay.
As for the contest to see who could pick George’s departure date, 19 of the 42 entrants have now been eliminated.