Who can see the most species of birds in Losen Slote Creek Park in 2015?

The Bergen County Audubon Society will donate $2 for every species seen by the winner toward a future conservation project at Losen Slote. For more information or to register, e-mail Don Torino at greatauk4@gmail.com.

Directions to Losen Slote are in the right-hand column of this blog.

It’s a great place, and a great challenge. Thanks, BCAS!

We kicked off 2015 with a brisk guided walk at Mill Creek Marsh with more than 50 participants.

Highlights included two Bald Eagles toward the end of the walk.

Because both adult raptors appeared to have all their feathers, we do not believe they were Alice and Al, but we are open to a second opinion.

We will post the full list of birds seen during the walk later this week.

A big thanks to Bergen County Audubon Society and everyone who participated in the walk!

To see what we might see in the Meadowlands this month, we thought we’d check what we posted on the blog last January. (Hint: Bald Eagles, Snowy Owls and more.)

Just click on the text to link to the post.

January 1: American Eagle Airlines (photo by Roy Woodford, above.)

January 9: Rough-legged Hawks @ Disposal Road

January 13: Marco Van Brabant’s DeKorte Deep Freeze Pix

January 15: Don Torino’s Column on Bald Eagles

January 20: Bird Vs. Fish: Part One

January 20: Bird Vs. Fish: Part Two

January 21: Posts of DeKorte Snowy Owl Pix

January  30: Lapland Longspur at Laurel Hill

January 31: Snowy Owl Pellet Up-close

Thanks to you, Meadowblog had more than 15,000 page views in December.

Here’s to a great 2015!

We thought we’d kick off a new year with a photo of a new day — just before sunrise at Mill Creek Park in Secaucus, where today’s New Year’s Day walk is being held. Mickey and Elaine Raine took the photo in February 2013. (Thanks, Mickey and Elaine!)

Happy New Year!