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.

Thanks to the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute and its continuous weather monitoring station, you can now get a weather report localized for DeKorte Park.

The link is here.

Chris Takacs photographed this Peregrine on yesterday’s Christmas Bird Count.

Mike Newhouse reports that highlights included “a bittern and a Rusty Blackbird.”

No Snowies seen in the Meadowlands, though.

(Thanks, Chris and Mike!)

This is just looking for an excuse to run this insane photo by Dennis Cheeseman again.

This DeKorte Park Groundhog just keeps getting better and better looking.

Besides, we don’t run enough Groundhog photos.

Can you ID this bird based on its artificially darkened silhouette?  Leave your answer in  “Comments.”

Bufflehead photographed from Transco Trail.

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

Full info follows. Continue reading →

Mike Maddaloni, affectionately known by fellow Meadowlands photographers as Sunset Mike, has produced a series of three videos featuring Meadowlands sunrises and sunsets in autumn — all set to music.

We’ll post one on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday — with a bonus video next Friday.  Hundreds of hours of work went into these labors of love, and it shows. So stay tuned.

For earlier Meadowlands Mike posts, click here and here.

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. (Hint: lots of ducks.)

To see what’s being reported along Disposal Road on eBird Hotspot Explorer, click here.

We have been seeing the Bald Eagle perched on the distant 1-E Landfill fairly regularly.

These photos were taken from Harrier Meadow this week, but it can be seen from DeKorte Park as well if you bring a spotting scope and scan the landfill.  Just sayin;’.