Not a single day goes by that I don’t get a phone call, text or email about how a bird is in some way enriching someone’s life. It may be that a bird they have never seen before shows up at a backyard feeder, or it may be about a family member that has passed […]
To be sure, we in the environmental movement have many battles to fight and countless challenges ahead. Issues from climate change to saving endangered species make our grass roots efforts more important than ever. But very often many of the people we ask for help feel they want to do more and sometimes feel powerless […]
Back in the early 1990s when the Bald Eagle began its dramatic comeback from the ravages of DDT it was the hope of New Jersey biologists that maybe one day, if everything went right, it might be possible to get back to the pre-DDT numbers of nesting Bald Eagles in the State, which was 20. […]
Lately some of my days out birding feels more like an old vaudeville routine than a day in the field. A good friend of mine has a problem hearing and I have a big problem seeing but together, as we jokingly like to put it, we equal one complete birder. He depends on me to […]
Our historical idea of the great American conservationist conjures up iconic images of John Muir Hiking in the High Sierras, Teddy Roosevelt on horseback on the western plains and Rachel Carson bringing attention to the environmental disaster of DDT. All those environmental heroes and many more still very much inspire, motivate, and at times give […]
Today the “conk-la-ree” call of the Red-winged blackbirds filled the marshes. Bald Eagles perched high in the trees watched the ice below begin to break apart. Belted Kingfishers rattled over the river and for a while, for at least a short time, a very special time, all was right in the world again. It seems […]
I was a 12-year-old boy, riding my bicycle in a place and time as foreign to me as could ever be imagined. From just a few miles away my family and I entered a different culture, the Meadowlands. My first home was based in concrete and cars to my new one graced with tides, grasses […]
From the Oradell Reservoir to DeKorte Park, from Frank M. Chapman Trail to River Barge Park, from Mehrhof Pond to Overpeck County Park and everywhere along the Hackensack River and in-between our Bald Eagles displayed their dramatic comeback to all who had the foresight and willingness to just look up. Bergen County Audubon Society volunteers […]
The year 2021 marks the 80th Anniversary of the Bergen County Audubon Society. As we begin to celebrate 8 decades of birds and conservation we all have to reflect on the many changes that have come upon our wildlife, our birds and our environment in those many years. Although we like to dwell on our […]
It seems that we can do nothing but wait these days. Wait to one day go to a local restaurant. Wait to be with family again. Wait for the vaccine and everyone waiting for some form of life as we once knew it. At the same time, as we watch the disheartening evening news reports […]