NY1 did a nice short segment  on our Tuesday and Thursday noon walks on the otherwise-closed Marsh Discovery Trail.
   (Next walk is tomorrow; water levels are still way down.)
   Link to NY1 segment is here.

    In case you're planning ahead, here are some Meadowlands highlights  from last July (click on the date to read the post):

   July 6: Butterfly in Progress

   July 6: A Walk to Remember (Black Skimmers)

   July 9: Baby Waxwing?

   July 10: (Young) Peregrine's Progress

   July 13: Cormorant Vs. Eel

   July 15: Osprey Nest in Kearny

  July 28: Butterfly Report (Viceroy)

  July 29: Praying Mantis

     By popular demand, we are providing a downloadable PDf of our Hackensack River Guide.

   This way you can see a digital version and save paper. Do not try to print it out… It is set up to be read on a computer.

   Scroll down for digital versions of the other five guides, posted on this blog last week.

    Download NJMC Hackensack River Guide

       By popular demand, we are providing a downloadable PDf of our Mill Creek Marsh Paddling Guide.

This way you can see a digital version and save paper. Do not try to print it out… It is set up to be read on a computer.

   We are posting all six of our new or reprinted guides, with a different one each day.

 Next: The Hackensack River Guide.

Download NJMC Mill Creek Marsh Paddling Guide

 
    An injured Black Skimmer – a bird on the NJDEP endangered-species list -– was successfully released Friday morning near Laurel Hill County Park in Secaucus after a miraculous recovery at the Raptor Trust rehabilitation facility in Millington.
   New Jersey Meadowlands Commission naturalists Mike Newhouse and Brett Bragin released the bird from a pontoon boat in Saw Mill Creek Wildlife Management Area in North Arlington.

   It flew down the channel, banked left at a bend, and disappeared.

 A pic of a skimmer in action, plus the rest of the story, folllows.

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   By popular demand, we are providing a downloadable PDf of our Meadowlands Bird Checklist. This way you can see a digital version and save paper. Do not try to print it out… It is set up to be read on a computer.

   We are posting all six of our new or reprinted guides over the next week.

   Next: Mill Creek Marsh Paddling Guide.

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  Name the butterfly… (Clue above; seen Tuesday.)

 
   The injured Black Skimmer rescued in Secaucus on June 9 and brought to the Raptor Trust by the Meadowlands Commission has made a miraculous recovery.
   As recently as Monday, the Raptor Trust staff did not think the bird would survive from an apparent impact injury. The bird was force-fed and tube-fed, and suddenly has made an about-face. The NJMC plans to release the bird in the Meadowlands on Friday morning.  Link to earlier post is here.
  
   More on the Raptor Trust here. (Thanks, Raptor Trust!)

   More on Black Skimmers — endangered in New Jersey — here.

     By popular demand, we are providing a downloadable PDf of our DeKorte Park Trail Guide. This way you can see a digital version and save paper. Do not try to print it out… It is set up to be read on a computer.

   We are posting all six of our new or reprinted guides over the next week.

   Next: The Birds of the Meadowlands updated checklist.

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     … You have to stop by while the water levels are low in the Shorebird Pool during a routine inspection of the pilings…  Won't last beyond this weekend in all likelihood.