The Northern Shrike is now officially on the 10 Most Wanted List of Meadowlands birders, and we have posted a "Wanted Poster" on Disposal Road to that effect.
Click here >>>Download WANTED to read the poster.
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Bird Report 010710 Part 2 (Shrike!)
Chris Takacs reports: "Northern Shrike was seen along the Saw Mill Creek Trail at 3:30 Wednesday afternoon.
"I saw it between the first two towers perched on a small bush. It flew toward the carillon as I walked out the trail."
"Red-breasted Merganser, 41 Buffleheads, 15 Green-winged Teal, 130+ Black Ducks, 2 Red-tailed Hawks, 3 Harriers, 3 White-crowned Sparrows were all seen from the trail or the AMVETS Carillon area." (Thanks, Chris!)
Pipit
Kevin Watson took this American Pipit shot at Mill Creek Marsh last Saturday. (Thanks, Kevin!)
More on American Pipits here (but try to find the pipit in the photo on that page).
Bird Report 010710
Chris Takacs saw this Common Yellowthroat yesterday morning along Valleybrook Avenue in Lyndhurst, by the old ballfields, while doing an informal bird count at DeKorte and environs. Other highlights included a Bald Eagle and 2 Black-crowned Night Herons. (Thanks, Chris!)
Click "Continue reading .." immediately below to see Chris' full report.
Sunset, Canvasbacks, DeKorte, 4:45 p.m.
Common Moorhens
Ron Shields kicked off the new year at the Kearny Marsh with these Common Moorhen shots. (Thanks, Ron!)
More on Common Moorhens here.
We welcome photographers to share their Meadowlands images with us. Just e-mail them to Jim Wright here.
Tomorrow: A Pipit by Kevin Watson.
Ruby-crowned Kinglet Plus
Chris Takacs pointed out this Ruby-crowned Kinglet (and another one, plus many Fox Sparrows) this morning at DeKorte. (Thanks, Chris!)
Also seen (or heard) of late: 
The Northern Shrike was seen in its usual haunts along Disposal Road at 2:15 p.m. yesterday.
A Ring-necked Pheasant was seen by Disposal Road just beyond the DeKorte Park entrance on Sunday and heard again on Monday.
Near the Duck congregation in DeKorte, by the Lyndhurst Nature Reserve tidal inlet: A Killdeer. Also there this a.m.: Pintails, Green-winged Teal.
Duckville!
One of the best places to get great looks at many species of ducks is by the Lyndhurst Nature Preserve in DeKorte. With most of the tidal impoundments frozen over, the ducks are hanging out in great numbers in relatively small spaces — like this raft of Canvasbacks late Monday afternoon.
In the past two days we have also seen Gadwall, Black Duck, Shoveler, Common Merg, Hooded Merg, Pintail, (2) Green-winged Teal and Mallard. (Might have had a Ruddy, too, but …).
That's 9 species (and often as many as four species at a time), not far from the visitors' parking spaces near the Administration Building (second building on your left).
Click "Continue reading…" for some more recent shots from the same area.
Tuesday Teaser 010510
The past few months, we've seen these guys mostly from the distance. Because of duck-hunting season, they are extremely skittish.
We got this shot and a few others when a pack of gulls drove them off one of the impoundments at Harrier Meadow last month.
Who are they?
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Click "Continue reading …" for the answer.
First Great Blue of the Year
On Disposal Road — where else? About 3:45 p.m. (But no shrike.)