Just saw it on a distant landfill about a half-mile south of Disposal Road. Too far away to photograph (and the light is awful), but the point is that it is still here.

Bufflehead photographed from Transco Trail.

We are culminating a year of wonderful walks next Tuesday at 10 a.m. with a guided walk at DeKorte Park and nearby Disposal Road. Lots of ducks and raptors, we hope.

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NJMC Naturalist Emeritus Don Smith reports that he saw Bald Eagles Alice and Al and a two-year-old Bald Eagle hanging out in a site across the river from their nesting area in Ridgefield park on Saturday. (Thanks, Don!)

We put together this collage of some of the wonderful birds banded this fall by Mike Newhouse and his fab band of bird-banders.

Some have been Teaser subjects in the past few months. Others are new.

Some are easy to ID. Some are difficult.

How many can you ID?  Top three responders win a free copy of the bird-banding poster or a Tom Yezerski “Meadowlands” poster.

(A similar post featuring banded birds from 2013 is here.)

To help with the IDs, large pix of the birds (sort of in order) follow. (At least one is even labeled.) Continue reading →