This guy was perched in a tree not far from Disposal Road at lunch time on Monday.  Sure hope it’s a Cooper’s Hawk, or the headline stinks.

Saw this bedraggled-looking raptor perched along Disposal Road, with the Sun behind it (natch).

At first we thought it was a Red-tail but now we aren’t so sure. What do you think?

Thanks!

Had a cool guided walk around DeKorte Park this  morning, with lots of birds, including a Light-morph Rough-leg.

This was our final walk of the year, and a big thank you to everyone who participated in our walks in 2014.

The young birder above improved his ID skills immensely once he stopped looking through his binoculars backwards.

Full list tomorrow.

Video 1 (above): “A Summer of Sunsets” (and generally great skies), all from DeKorte Park and Disposal Road. Please play with “sound” on.

Mike Maddaloni writes:

I recently went into high gear, producing not one, or two, but three videos featuring Meadowlands sunrises and sunsets — all time-lapse compilations starting from the summer until a few weeks ago.

Summer sunsets, and fall sunrises and sunsets; two different themes, three videos total.

I’d be honored, as always, to share these with  the Meadowblog community, as you know LOTS of work goes into producing these videos, not just capturing the images, but hours of post production work — tiny things not worth mentioning here that gave me lots of grief.

Nonetheless, I present to you this work, as polished and as awesome as I can make them.

(Thanks, Mike!)

We’ll post the second video tomorrow.