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.

It’s Day 104 now… If you haven’t seen him yet (or want to see him again for some reason),

The bird is way on the Saw Mill Creek mudflats, typically near one of the green NJ Turnpike exit signs. Spotting scope is a must.

(Posting the above photo so other pix on the blog look better by comparison, and to give you a vague idea where the bird hangs out.).

At the NJMC banding station this week, a pair of Northern Cardinals had what amounted to a double ring ceremony and then posed for a photo or two.

Care to suggest what Mr. Cardinal might be saying to the Missus?

The Laurel Hill Peregrines who nested on the swing bridge last summer have been seen of late hanging out in the old Common Ravens nest on the cliffs. Rick Radis and Bill Smejkal saw two Peregrines in the ravens’ nest yesterday, only to be disrupted by a third raven.

Last year at about this time the Peregrines took up residence on the swing bridge that had been used the previous summer by Osprey.  They have been seen hanging out by/on the cliffs often in the past couple of years. (Thanks, Rick and Bill!)

Trying to find something on the blog — an upcoming walk, a wayward pelican, a certain photographer’s photos, posts on Snowy Owls, sightings of a favorite butterfly?

Don’t forget that you can search six years of blog posts by using the Google search engine in the upper-right part of the blog. Let the searches begin.

For some reason, we had never been down to the water’s edge at the third impoundment in Harrier Meadow until earlier this week.

Pretty awesome place, right on the edge of civilization.

Rich Romano photographed this (released/escaped) bird at Mill Creek Point in Secaucus 10 days ago. We asked readers what kind of bird it is — and everyone agreed — Guinea Fowl.

It apparently has been roaming around Secaucus for a while, and may have a leg injury.

More on Guinea Fowl here.

Patrick Carney I.D.’d last Tuesday’s Teaser correctly — Connecticut Warbler.  (Congrats, Patrick!)

Our next walk with Bergen County Audubon Society is at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at Losen Slote Creek Park in Little Ferry, where we’ll look for fall migrants and take a gander at the new butterfly garden (right).

To see what we saw on October Losen Slote walk last fall, click here.

(We saw the thrush, above, on our October Losen Slote walk two years ago.)

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George the American White Pelican was seen at 2 p.m. today. That’s Day 101.

Of the more than 40 folks who entered the “Guess When the Pelican Will Leave” contest, only three contestants remain: Sura Polne, Mary Diane Hausman and Chris Takacs.

Congrats to all three for hanging in there this long. 101 days and counting — who knew?