This slide show of an osprey fishing was taken in Carlstadt along the Hackensack River this summer.
We saw a pair of ospreys this week by the Secaucus High School Marsh, and they should be around this weekend for the Meadowlands Festival of Birding.
Take an eco-cruise if you can.
A pair of Peregrine Falcons has been hanging out near the Route 3 Bridges over the Hackensack River all 
summer.
These shots were taken in August.
With any luck, these amazing raptors will hang around for the Meadowlands Festival of Birding this weekend.
Harrier Meadow in North Arlington is a 70-acre wetlands mitigation site restored by the NJ Meadowlands Commission.
Once a year, for the Meadowlands Festival of Birding (Sept. 13 and 14), the site is open to the public.
Here’s a sneak preview, with an interview with NJMC naturalist Michael Newhouse.
Click here for a previous post on Harrier Meadow, with information on plans for guided tours that you can sign up for.
Eleven starlings decided to get a better view of the Erie Landfill in North Arlington but one was still on the fence.
The big banner went up in DeKorte Park’s Butterfly Garden last week — letting everyone know that the big Meadowlands Festival of Birding is less than two weeks away now.
For more information about this event, sponsored and hosted by the Meadowlands Commission, click here.
Coming soon, a video of Harrier Meadow, one of the many attractions of the fest.
A lot of warblers are heading south again, and Schmidt’s Woods in Secaucus is a good 
place to see them.
Last week, just beyond the park’s parking lot, we saw a black-and-white warbler (below) and a redstart high in a tree (right).
The park is on the small side, but the woods provide a great rest stop for the warblers.
The trails are nice and wide, with an exercise circuit along the way.
In years past, yellow-crowned night herons, a threatened species, have nested there.
All in all, a nice oasis for birds and humans alike.
More Tuesday Sightings from DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst and the AMVETS Carillon area along Disposal Road in North Arlington:
Don Torino had a "real nice Peregrine Falcon on the power line tower across from the veterans memorial [in North Arlington]. It kept circling and calling, pretty cool."
Ray Duffy reports:
"I got the 3 Marbled Godwits around 2:45pm Tuesday at DeKorte.
"A White-rumped Sandpiper (speckled along the flanks, longer wings) along the Marsh Discovery Trail.
"Three Western Sandpipers mixed in with the Semipalmated sandpipers around the Marsh Discovery Trail.
"A magnolia warbler and an american redstart along the Lyndhurst Nature Reserve trail.
"One short-billed dowitcher hanging out with a group of yellowlegs in the phragmites cluster by the nature center.
For non-birds, I got a hummingbird moth and a likely hairstreak butterfly (<link to Ray's photo here) at the Butterfly Garden.
Woodcreeper.com, which tracks bird migration in New Jersey "using Doppler radar and a community of diehard birdwatchers," has proclaimed that the fall migration in on.
Click here to see the site.
Birder Mike Britt, a friend of this blog, today reported the immature white ibis, three marbled godwits, two Caspian terns and 10 kestrels in the DeKorte Park area of Lyndhurst.
Click "Continue reading … " for his report to Jersey Birds e-mail list.
New Jersey Audubon’s Pete Bacinski and Scott Barnes had a nice column in the Star-Ledger on Saturday that highlighted birding along the Meadowlands’ mud flats. Read it here.
