In case you're planning ahead, here are some Meadowlands highlights from last July (click on the date to read the post):
July 6: A Walk to Remember (Black Skimmers)
July 10: (Young) Peregrine's Progress
July 15: Osprey Nest in Kearny
July 28: Butterfly Report (Viceroy)
By popular demand, we are providing a downloadable PDf of our Hackensack River Guide.
This way you can see a digital version and save paper. Do not try to print it out… It is set up to be read on a computer.
Scroll down for digital versions of the other five guides, posted on this blog last week.
By popular demand, we are providing a downloadable PDf of our Mill Creek Marsh Paddling Guide.
This way you can see a digital version and save paper. Do not try to print it out… It is set up to be read on a computer.
We are posting all six of our new or reprinted guides, with a different one each day.
Next: The Hackensack River Guide.
An injured Black Skimmer – a bird on the NJDEP endangered-species list -– was successfully released Friday morning near Laurel Hill County Park in Secaucus after a miraculous recovery at the Raptor Trust rehabilitation facility in Millington.
It flew down the channel, banked left at a bend, and disappeared.
A pic of a skimmer in action, plus the rest of the story, folllows.
By popular demand, we are providing a downloadable PDf of our Meadowlands Bird Checklist. This way you can see a digital version and save paper. Do not try to print it out… It is set up to be read on a computer.
We are posting all six of our new or reprinted guides over the next week.
Next: Mill Creek Marsh Paddling Guide.
Name the butterfly… (Clue above; seen Tuesday.)
The injured Black Skimmer rescued in Secaucus on June 9 and brought to the Raptor Trust by the Meadowlands Commission has made a miraculous recovery.
As recently as Monday, the Raptor Trust staff did not think the bird would survive from an apparent impact injury. The bird was force-fed and tube-fed, and suddenly has made an about-face. The NJMC plans to release the bird in the Meadowlands on Friday morning. Link to earlier post is here.
More on the Raptor Trust here. (Thanks, Raptor Trust!)
More on Black Skimmers — endangered in New Jersey — here.
By popular demand, we are providing a downloadable PDf of our DeKorte Park Trail Guide. This way you can see a digital version and save paper. Do not try to print it out… It is set up to be read on a computer.
We are posting all six of our new or reprinted guides over the next week.
Next: The Birds of the Meadowlands updated checklist.
… You have to stop by while the water levels are low in the Shorebird Pool during a routine inspection of the pilings… Won't last beyond this weekend in all likelihood.
Have you seen any Monarch butterflies this year?
The word we are getting is that while this looks to be a good year for butterflies in general in North Jersey, numbers of the iconic Monarch are down. We have but one (sketchy) sighting at DeKorte so far this spring.
What are you seeing?