And we’ve got more magnificent photos from Tuesday’s Birding by Boat trip to brighten your day!

Tagged Herring Gull

Peregrine Falcon

Greater Yellowlegs\

Greater Yellowlegs with Dowitchers

Don’t forget to join the Bergen County Audubon Society for a free, guided nature walk this Sunday, Oct. 2, at DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst. We’ll be looking for shorebirds, herons, egrets, sparrows and other fall migrants.

What a dreary morning…..  Hope these awesome photos from Tuesday’s Birding by Boat Trip  by Joe Koscielny brighten things up a bit! We’ll have more throughout the day

Osprey

Ospreys

Osprey with Fish

Kestrel

Here’s our first batch of photos from Tuesday’s Birding by Boat trip with the Bergen County Audubon Society and NJSEA. We’ll have plenty more tomorrow!
All photos below by Marie Longo

Great Egrets

Great Blue Heron

Peregrine Falcon

Gulls and Cormorants

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Credit: Marie Longo

Autumn is a wonderful time of year in the Meadowlands, a time when the hectic days of summer slowdown in favor of the cool season’s winds and the beautiful golds, scarlets and crimsons of fall colors.

I don’t think I could live in a part of the country that didn’t have a real change of season like we have here in New Jersey. Every season brings many changes to the natural world, and none more dramatic and diverse than autumn.

Just as our lifestyle changes in the fall, it also changes in many ways not only for the birds of the Meadowlands, but also for our backyard birds.

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Due to forecasted inclement weather, tonight’s (Sept. 28) 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, Oct. 5, from 8 to 10:30 pm

We had a great Birding By Boat excursion yesterday! Guided by the BCAS and NJSEA naturalists, participants spotted 30 species, including various herons, sandpipers, gulls and raptors. A complete list is below. Photos to follow shortly.

For the past five weeks Marie Longo (left) of the BCAS has been busy tagging Monarch Butterflies at several locations including DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst, the Leonia section of Overpeck Park and other locations. Marie is a seasoned tagging pro and has been monitoring Monarchs for years.

Tagging Monarchs is a citizen scientist project led by Monarch Watch at the University of Kansas and it’s important because, as Don Torino wrote in his column last week, by tracking Monarchs movements as they migrate south to Mexico, scientists can gain information to aid the unfortunately fast disappearing species.

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Tom Mitchell sent in these great photos of warblers he and Sharon Ayling spotted near the Meadowlands Environment Center in DeKorte yesterday. A nice way to start the day. Thanks Tom!

Don’t forget to join the Bergen County Audubon Society for a free, guided nature walk this Sunday, Oct. 2, at DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst. We’ll be looking for shorebirds, herons, egrets, sparrows and other fall migrants.