Many thanks to Mickey Raine for these fine photos of a Greater Yellowlegs, Snowy Egret and Tree Swallow at Mill Creek Marsh takenrecently!

Barn Swallow

Thanks to Dennis Cheeseman for the blog’s first photos of the year of a Barn Swallow, Blue Gray Gnatcatcher and Northern Rough-winged Swallow! There’s also a great angle on a Tree Swallow in flight and a Palm Warbler. Photos taken at DeKorte yesterday.

Blue Gray Gnatcatcher

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Tree Swallow

Palm Warbler

We don’t get a lot of photos of Vesper Sparrows, so thanks much to Rich Brown, who saw this little guy over the weekend at DeKorte!

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The Bergen County Audubon Society is leading a nature walk through Losen Slote Creek Park in Little Ferry followed by a park cleanup this Sunday, May 6. The walk goes from 9 to 11 a.m. and the cleanup starts after the walk and will last until approximately 12:30 pm.

Losen Slote Creek Park is one of the area’s few remaining lowland forests. During the nature walk they’ll be looking for spring migrants, warblers and thrushes.

Please bring gloves and wear appropriate clothes for the cleanup.

For more information contact Don Torino at greatauk4@gmail.com or 201-230-4983.

Forster’s Tern

Joe Koscielny photographed a great variety of bird and plant species during the Bergen County Audubon Society Earth Day walk at DeKorte. More from Joe to come later. Thanks Joe!!

The next BCAS Meadowlands walk is this coming Sunday, May 6, from 9 to 11 a.m. at Losen Slote Creek Park in Little Ferry. The walk will be followed by a park cleanup. For information contact Don Torino at greatauk4@gmail.com or 201-230-4983.

Bradford Pear

Dandelions and Purple Dead Nettle

Greater Yellowlegs

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Black-crowned Night Herons

The Meadowlands Conservation Trust extends its thanks to the FEMA/AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) program, whose members volunteered for a cleanup at the edge of the Kane Tract in South Hackensack on Saturday, April 21. They were joined by NJSEA staffer Colleen Mercado, her husband David Mercado, and MCT Consultant Don Smith.

Seven AmeriCorps NCCC members participated in the cleanup and helped fill 30 garbage bags with debris from the site. The Kane Tract is a critical wetlands restoration area and AmeriCorps NCCC’s help was greatly appreciated. Casey Godfrey of FEMA/AmeriCorps NCCC reached out to the MCT to help the environment as part of his group’s Global Youth Service Day. Casey’s team is currently serving at FEMA Region II Headquarters in New York City and is housed in Secaucus.

The AmeriCorps NCCC program focuses on a wide variety of service and project areas including direct response and recovery to natural and other disasters, infrastructure improvement, environmental stewardship and conservation, energy conservation, and urban and rural development.

Thanks to Mickey Raine for these photos taken yesterday of a Forster’s Tern after a successful hunt for a snack!

Meeting of the minds above between a Snowy and Great Egret. It’s all egrets in this post. Thanks to Joe Koscielny for the great pics!

Haven’t seen the Harbor Seals out at River Barge Park the last couple days but here are some wonderful photos that Jill Weiss took earlier in the week. Love the expressions!