tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1692276 2012-01-28T20:42:50-05:00 A celebration and exploration of the natural wonders in North Jersey's 30.4-square-mile Meadowlands District. © 2009, NJMC TypePad typepad/XGPuhttp://feedburner.google.com tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c2088340167614158bb970b 2012-01-28T20:42:50-05:00 2012-01-28T20:45:54-05:00

"Nice day &amp; nice birds at DeKorte Park today: Iceland Gull (below), Am. Bittern (above), male Ring-necked Pheasant, Marsh Wren. "Saw Iceland in flight, was pointed out to me by a group that was there as I came up to...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/dByTAcEZAPA" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/great-birds-dekorte-today.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c20883401676132ece0970b 2012-01-27T16:52:53-05:00 2012-01-27T16:52:53-05:00

Lesser Scaup is currently chilling in the middle of a raft of 100+ Canvasbacks at DeKorte in the Saw Mill Creek tidal impoundment... (Thank you to Ray Duffy for pointing her out!)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/wPuuzik81Ss" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/lesser-scaup-at-dekorte.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c2088340167611d6997970b 2012-01-27T07:40:00-05:00 2012-01-26T10:39:28-05:00

Our latest weekly "Focus on the Meadowlands" post for the wildnewjersey.tv blog features pix of: * A Great Black-backed Squirrel in Rutherford. * A Great Black-backed Gull in Lyndhurst. * The NJMC's fall 2012 bird-banding results from the closed Erie...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/UU47ey3CooE" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/our-latest-wild-nj-post-great-black-backed-squirrel.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c2088340168e61fa465970c 2012-01-26T10:59:25-05:00 2012-01-27T09:36:22-05:00

Dennis Cheeseman pulled off a rare feat this week -- nice photographs of both a Ruby-crowned Kinglet and a Great Blue Heron at DeKorte Park on the same day. The Ruby-crown is probably the smallest bird in the park (it...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/loMWFtw7V2Q" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/dekorte-smallest-largest.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c208834016760f45c5c970b 2012-01-26T08:21:00-05:00 2012-01-23T11:32:56-05:00

Jim Wright, who keeps this blog, also writes a twice-monthly nature column for The South Bergenite. Here's his latest, an interview with "Meadowlands" author Thoms F. Yezerski. The last time we checked in with children’s author/illustrator Tom Yezerski, his marvelous...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/2660StDJX0M" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/new-south-bergenite-column-interview-with-tom-yezerski.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c2088340168e60eb283970c 2012-01-25T10:37:00-05:00 2012-01-26T09:43:46-05:00

Chris Takacs reports: "I took a lunchtime trip to Mill Creek Marsh in Secaucus on Tuesday. Most of the ice was gone and ducks have come back to the impoundments. It doesn't have great duck diversity but we had very...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/BD0HLeHGvro" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/eurasian-teal-back-at-mill-creek.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c2088340168e6020171970c 2012-01-25T10:12:00-05:00 2012-01-25T10:12:00-05:00

A big thank you to Deedee Burnside for identifying the above Tuesday Teaser as Reindeer Lichen. More on Reindeer Lichen here.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/xvxbUUvg6mE" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/teaser-answered.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c208834016760f40e0c970b 2012-01-25T07:20:00-05:00 2012-01-25T07:20:00-05:00

Want to get outside and get some exercise before the big game? Don't miss the third-annual SuperBird Sunday guided walk, a free event that takes place at DeKorte Park at 10 a.m. on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 5, at 10...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/BjxaedKbnfc" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/our-next-walk-superbird-sunday-feb-5.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c208834016760154783970b 2012-01-24T01:52:00-05:00 2012-01-24T01:52:00-05:00

Bruce Riede took this shot of mushrooms in the Ridgefield Nature Center in November. Can you ID them? (Thanks, Bruce!)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/Csz_Rhr5EOA" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/tuesday-teaser-012412.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c2088340162fffff549970d 2012-01-23T12:19:47-05:00 2012-01-23T12:20:13-05:00

Saw a female Common Goldeneye in Teal Pool at 11:45 a.m. today on our lunchbreak. We know the pic above stinks, but the lighting was poor and the duck was distant. Around noon she flew and landed fairly close in...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/KTAfJF1pHQ0" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/goldeneye-at-dekorte-park.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c208834016760de5332970b 2012-01-23T10:23:00-05:00 2012-01-23T12:20:54-05:00

Deedee Burnside correctly ID'd the mystery pods photographed by Mickey and Elaine Raine near DeKorte Park, posted last week. They are wild cucumbers. About three years ago (how time flies), we posted a different ("greener") shot of them, in Harrier...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/ujI5_3Nf7bs" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/mysery-pods-demystified.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c2088340162ffcb4f41970d 2012-01-23T07:56:00-05:00 2012-01-23T13:40:33-05:00

For the past three years, the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission and the Bergen County Audubon Society have joined forces to offer a wide range of nature programs to the public, including twice-monthly guided nature walks – plus two inexpensive birding-by-boat...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/jBT8t1A6SGA" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/2012-schedule-for-njmcbcas-events.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c208834016760ec57e9970b 2012-01-22T11:43:57-05:00 2012-01-22T11:43:57-05:00

Mike Britt reports: "Hit Mill Creek Point early this morning...no Roughlegs...three adult female Northern Harriers. "The DeKorte area had a Wilson's Snipe (observed flying off Valley Brook Ave.), 3 Northern Harriers...two adult females working the 1-E landfill and an immature...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/gDj1ZqHd2Ic" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/bird-report-012212.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c208834016760dd6bf6970b 2012-01-20T15:11:44-05:00 2012-01-20T15:20:08-05:00

Did a quick walk out into DeKorte Park Nature Reserve during lunch, near low tide. Didn't see any Canvasbacks but did see an extra-secretive Pied-billed Grebe (above) and a Lesser Yellowlegs (left). The Grebe was distant, and hanging out near...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/Jd-MKAPvrNM" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/bird-report-pied-billed-grebe-lesser-yellowlegs.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c2088340168e5dc82c5970c 2012-01-20T13:35:00-05:00 2012-01-23T11:17:34-05:00

Prize-winning author and artist Thomas F. Yezerski, whose stunning book “Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story” was on several 2011 “Ten Best” lists, is exhibiting the illustrations from the book in the DeKorte Park’s Flyway Gallery through the end of March....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/3i6lFVyded8" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/coming-in-february-tom-yezerski-gallery-show.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c2088340162ffce35bb970d 2012-01-20T11:00:00-05:00 2012-01-20T14:04:01-05:00

Calling all birders! The New Jersey Meadowlands Commission and the Bergen County Audubon Society are pleased to announce the 2012 Meadowlands Big Year competition. The goal is to see as many different bird species as possible in the 14 towns...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/9x_reN8eEn8" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/the-meadowlands-big-year-contest-the-details.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c2088340168e5dbe71d970c 2012-01-20T10:53:59-05:00 2012-01-20T11:48:56-05:00

To coincide with the opening of the newGeorge Lucas flick "Red Tail," our sister blog, The Meadowlands History Blog, has reposted an item from a few years back about Tuskegee Airman Lt. Calvin J. Spann. Spann grew up in Rutherford....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/GdU1D4yIx9o" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/rutherford-red-tail.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c2088340162ffccb2de970d 2012-01-20T03:00:00-05:00 2012-01-20T03:00:00-05:00

We have compiled a boffo events calendar for all of 2012, so you can set aside some very important dates -- such as Butterfly Day, Kevin Karlson Shorebird Day, Birding for Beginners classes, a special April Fool's Day (you'll be...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/Fd7X1Pze1gI" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/coming-monday-full-events-calendar-for-2012.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c2088340168e5c25f2e970c 2012-01-20T02:54:00-05:00 2012-01-20T02:54:00-05:00

Mickey and Elaine Raine write: "Just outside DeKorte Park, on the other side of the railroad tracks, we recently came across trees that had a number of strange cocoon-like pods suspended by these very thin, almost vine like, extensions that...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/swRz3cSBov8" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/can-you-id-these-mystery-pods.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553bb7c2088340162ffccbc84970d 2012-01-19T02:36:00-05:00 2012-01-19T02:36:00-05:00

Izabela Gard took these photos on Sunday at DeKorte Park - West Shorebird Pool. "Despite cold weather and frozen pools it looks like birds are doing well at DeKorte," she writes. (Thanks, Izabela!)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/XGPu/~4/xK9kivGEoGM" height="1" width="1"/>

NJMC http://www.meadowblog.net/2012/01/greater-yellowlegs-continues.html