Check out almost any mudflat in the Meadowlands these days and you’ll see hundreds of peeps and a yellowleg or dowitcher or two…
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Category Archives: Birds
BIRDS: Indigo bunting
We saw indigo buntings twice this morning, once on Disposal Road between Meadowlands Commission headquarters, then again on the Transco Trail between the Lyndhurst Nature Reserve and the Saw Mill Creek Trail in North Arlington.
We have seen them in the same area several times now.
SECAUCUS: Mill Creek Marsh birds
Birders Don Torino and Dick Engsberg did some birding along the Mill Creek Marsh Trail in Secaucus Monday morning.
They report they saw "a nice peregrine falcon, semipalmated plover, greater yellow legs, forsters terns, least and semipalmated sandpipers, snowy and great egrets and a good number of monarch butterflies."
BIRDING: Lyndhurst plus
A recent Jersey Birds report by birder Michael Britt reflects the avian diversity and abundance in the Meadowlands:
My son and I birded the Hackensack Meadows Saturday evening.
"Highlights"
Semipalmated & Least Sandpipers (mixed flock of 5000+)
Great Egret (30+)
Snowy Egret (30+)
Great Blue Heron (3)
Black-crowned Night Heron
Green Heron
Northern Harrier (adult female)
Osprey
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SHOREBIRDS
BIRDS: The Duffy report
Birder Ray Duffy reports:
I visited DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst Thursday afternoon around 3:45 p.m. It was low tide when I arrived and the pools filled up.
The three highlight birds were:
* The juvenile Tricolored Heron which is still present along the Marsh Discovery Trail. He got flushed as I walked the trail and he camped out near the group of phragmites near the Environmental Center.
* I also spotted a Scaup. I think it is a Lesser, but it’s kind of tough to tell as he was feeding in the mud, I’ve included pics, I’d appreciate a second opinion.
*I also spotted a Laughing Gull, my first for Bergen county this year.
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SECAUCUS: Greater yellowlegs
SIGHTINGS: Secaucus, Kearny
Birder Ray Duffy visits the Meadowlands’ parks and marshes regularly. His recent sightings include a peregrine falcon and an Egyptian goose at Mill Creek Marsh in Secaucus and a least bittern and a willow flycatcher at the Kearny Marsh.
LYNDHURST: Barn swallows
The tree swallows in the Meadowlands have been getting more publicity, but the barn swallows are making their presence known as well in DeKorte Park.
Walk in the parking lot and they’ll be whizzing past. Walk on the Marsh Discovery Trail or on the elevated boardwalk near the Environment Center, and they are zipping past everywhere.
In fact, they zip so fast they are next to impossible to photograph in flight.
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