In honor of Sunday's upcoming butterfly walk, we thought we'd go with a different kind of Tuesday Teaser. This was taken yesterday at the Butterfly Garden at DeKorte Park.
What kind of butterfly is this?
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Monday morning at the butterfly gardens at DeKorte Park and the AMVETS Carillon, we had seven species of butterflies.
The butterflies included Eastern Swallowtail, Eastern Black Swallowtail, Monarch, Sulphur, Cabbage White, a Broadwing Skipper (left) and a guy that will be tomorrow's Tuesday Teaser.
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Don’t forget the free Butterfly Walk at DeKortePark in Lyndhurst on Sunday at 1 p.m. – co-sponsored by the N.J. Meadowlands Commission and the Bergen County Audubon Society.
Get started learning how to identify the Butterflies of the Meadowlands and the plants that attract them. Optics for butterflies and how to start your own backyard butterfly garden will be discussed briefly, followed by a walk. Let’s hope the butterflies cooperate! (P.S. We shot the photo at left at lunchtime at DeKorte Park today.)
To help us with a head count, please rsvp to Jim Wright at jim.wright@njmeadowlands.gov or the BCAS’ Don Torino, greatauk4@aol.com, if you have not done so already…
Click here for directions to DeKorte Park: http://www.njmeadowlands.gov/about/directions/To%20DeKorte%20Park.pdf
Other upcoming NJMC/BCAS partnership events include 90-minute nature walks in DeKorte Park at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, July 21, and in Harrier Meadow, in North Arlington, on Sunday, Aug. 2, and Tuesday Aug. 18, both at 1 p.m.
Every once in a while you run across a strange encounter — like this battle between a Double-crested Cormorant and an eel at Mill Creek Point on the hackensack River last week.
At first, it looked like the cormorant had things under control. Then the eel wrapped itself around the cormorant's neck.
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We saw this young Peregrine earlier this week on the eastbound Route 3 Bridge, looking spiffy. His natal nest was on the westbound Route 3, so the little big guy is starting to get around.
A colleague of ours –- a novice birder, at best — swears she saw a yellow parakeet at DeKorte Park
She says, "It is definitely not a goldfinch, but what do I know? It did have that kind of parakeet beak, a long tail & was bright yellow. Would this be a first?"
If you are that photographer, or know of him (in his late 30s, early 40s, mid-height and thin, and wearing a red baseball cap), we sure would like to see a photo, just to confirm that our colleague isn't (completely) crazy and that she really did see an escaped parakeet.
We found this little guy in a handicapped parking space in front of the NJMC administration building in DeKorte Park earlier this week.
We moved it to the building's grounds several feet away, out of harm's way, and then let it be.
When we checked an hour later, it was gone.
We are thinking that this is a baby Cedar Waxwing, given the yellow on the tail feathers.
If anyone has another idea, please let us know.
Cedar Waxwings have been zipping around DeKorte for a while, and we photographed several adults about an hour earlier.
Click "Continue reading" for a shot of an adult Cedar Waxwing taken earlier this week.
The Monk Parakeets continue to thrive on the bridge above the train tracks on the Hendricks Causeway in Ridgefield.Best place to see them is from Railroad Avenue.
A recent fledgling made it all the way to the Slocum Skewes School several bocks away.
Can you identify this bird?
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We had at least 30 species over just less than two hours on our first summer Sunday nature walk at DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst — including Black Skimmer, Osprey (W/ fish), Peregrine Falcon (distant), and Forster's Tern.
(For more on this walk and other summer's Meadowlands nature walks sponsored by the Meadowlands Commission and Bergen County Audubon Society, read the next post.)
Click "Continue Reading…" below for a semi-complete list from Sunday. Because our 30-some group spread out, some birders saw species that others may have missed.