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.

Due to Winter Storm Juno, DeKorte Park will be closed until Wednesday morning, Jan. 28, at the earliest.

The N.J. Meadowlands Commission Meeting on Wednesday has been rescheduled  for Friday, Jan. 30 at 2 p.m.

Mill Creek Marsh in Secaucus and the Marsh Discovery Trail in DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst are closed until after Winter Storm Juno. Please do not enter.

Our next free walk with Bergen County Audubon Society is our Sixth Annual Super Bird Sunday Walk in DeKorte Park on Feb. 1 — the same Sunday as the Super Bowl, just with lots of fresh air and no crass commercial craziness.

We’ll not only look for Bald Eagles and winter raptors, but we’ll be awarding prizes to the first person to see a bird species that was named for an NFL team.

(We may have gotten that last part backwards, but the stuff about the prizes is pretty much true.)

Details follow.

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