Join the BCAS for what promises to be a great walk at Mill Creek Marsh tomorrow, Tuesday, Aug. 16, from 10 am to noon. They’ll be looking for raptors, migrating shorebirds, egrets, herons and more. For more information email greatauk4@gmail.com or call 201-230-4983.
Chris Takacs reports observing a Wilson’s Pharalope today from the gazebo at DeKorte Park. There are usually only one or two of these birds sited in the Meadowlands each year, as they usually migrate further west. If any readers were able to get a photo please send to brian.aberback@njmeadowlands.gov
For more on the Wilson’s Phalarope click here
Join the BCAS for what promises to be a great walk at Mill Creek Marsh on Tuesday, Aug. 16, from 10 am to noon. They’ll be looking for raptors, migrating shorebirds, egrets, herons and more. For more information email greatauk4@gmail.com or call 201-230-4983.
Some more photos from Tuesday’s Birding By Boat trip with BCAS. Enjoy!
Immature Black-crowned Night Heron
Immature Black-crowned Night Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Snowy Egret
Here’s the latest batch of Birding By Boat photos from Tuesday’s pontoon boat ride on the Hackensack River. Here we have Great Blue Herons, Osprey and a Black-crowned Night Heron. More batches to come later on!
This week I found myself on my hands and knees crawling around a thick patch of Milkweed on my quest to find some Monarch caterpillars. My eyes, not nearly what they use to be, now find it much harder to find the insects, birds and other critters that I once found so easily not that very long ago.
Observing the natural world on all fours at 60-plus years old may not be a pretty sight for the casual observer, especially on my repeated attempts to get back on my feet, but I felt like I was 10-years old again. I could almost hear my father whistling for me to come home for dinner. I was just about ready to brush the mud from my knees and run home before I got myself into trouble…again.
After much back and forth concerning this “mystery bird” photographed on the Birding By Boat trip yesterday, it was decided that it is an Immature Female Hooded Merganser. We’ll have more Birding By Boat photos tomorrow, along with Don Torino’s latest Life in the Meadowlands column!
Regina Geoghan sent this collage of butterflies taken Monday at DeKorte. Wonder how they will fare with all the humidity and rain coming our way?
Due to cloud conditions, tonight’s (Aug. 10) open public viewing session at the William D. McDowell Observatory in DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst has been cancelled. The next open public viewing night is Wednesday, Aug. 17, from 8:30 to 10:30 pm
Thanks to Ron Shields for keeping us updated on the shorebird action at the Kearny Marsh. Enjoy these wonderful photos!
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Semipalmated Plover
Least Sandpiper