Several folks checked several locales inside the park and nearby, with no luck.

If you see it (or photograph it), holler!

Dennis Cheeseman supplied the photo and question, from Mill Creek Marsh this week.

(Thanks, Dennis!)

The very rare (for the East Coast) Cinnamon Teal first seen last Friday morning by the NJMC’s Naturalist Emeritus Don Smith on DeKorte Park’s Saw Mill Creek mudflats was found again by us  Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. on another ebbing tide.

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Nick Vos Wein reports:

Saw it this morning in the trees near the back parking lot, near Transco/LNR intersection.

(Thanks, Nick. Pic of  DeKorte YB Cuckoo is here.)

Ron Shields took this shot at the Kearny Marsh. He thinks it’s a female Red-breasted Merganser.

What do you think?  (Thanks, Ron!)

It now swimming near shore near  berm. Has been in two locations in Teal Pool, along Transco Trail, far parking lot.  “9” on map is the administration building.

Better pix from last week here.

Saw the bird the same spot as Friday with tide going out. Several birders have confirmed. Will post (distant) pix as time permits…

No one is happier than us to hear that funding is now available to repair DeKorte Park’s Marsh Discovery Trail, severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

The trail should be open again by the end of this year.

Scott Fallon, environmental writer for The Record, wrote an article recently on the extensive and expensive repairs.  The link is here. (Note: The repairs were approved at an NJMC Commission meeting this morning.)

Allan Sanford took this shot last Friday, just before the rains came.  (Thanks, Allan!)

Nj.com has an interesting story about how coyotes are becoming more and more widespread in New Jersey.

We are certainly more in the Meadowlands in the past five years, including this one photographed just months ago from Disposal Road by Mike Brandao.

Link is here.