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.Richard W. DeKorte Park, Bergen, US-NJ
Sep 7, 2014 9:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.5 mile(s)
Comments:     First Sunday of the Month Walk, BCAS and NJMC; plus Diamondback Terrapins, butterflies, moths, caterpillars
30 species

Canada Goose
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican  1     Day 64 of DeKorte Park held hostge
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Osprey
Greater Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Mourning Dove
Downy Woodpecker
Merlin
Warbling Vireo
Marsh Wren
American Robin
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow