Don Torino of Bergen County Audubon, who leads so many of our walk, has a new column on wildnewjersey.tv. Here’s a sample:
One of the greatest things about birding is the people we meet and the friends we make along the way,Birding creates a bond and closeness with people like no other pursuit I know of. My words find it difficult to express the joy…
But once in a while there are those times that I find the need to journey out into the woods and fields unaccompanied and alone.
The link is here.
Jill Homcy writes:
Drove through the Meadowlands Tuesday after the storm and found a couple of folks watching this beautiful Merlin perched near the ballfield on Valley Brook.
(Thanks, Jill!)
“Starbreaker,” by Gabriel Diaz.
This month, eight-year-old Lyndhurst resident Gabriel Diaz became the first elementary-school-aged student to have his very own exhibit at the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission’s Flyway Gallery.
The show was originally scheduled to run through last Friday but has now been extended through February.
Diaz is introducing area residents to his artistic talents during the multi-media, wildlife-themed show, “The Wonders of the Universe.”
Some of Gabriel’s work measures as large as 5 feet high by 4½ feet wide.
More information about the show is here.
DeKorte Park will be open again as of Wednesday morning.
The N.J. Meadowlands Commission Meeting on Wednesday has been rescheduled for Friday, Jan. 30 at 2 p.m.
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Photo by Regina Geoghan
Our friends at National Moth Week have declared 2015 “the Year of the Sphinx Moth,” which suits us just fine since we get quite a few at Jill’s Garden in the summer, including the Hummingbird Clearwing Moth and the Snowberry Clearwinged Moth and a very occasional Nessus Sphinx Moth.
The link to the National Moth Week Post is here.
And yes, we are planning another Moth Night with Bergen County Audubon Society and National Moth Week again this summer. Can’t wait!
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.