Next month, at the Meadowlands Festival of Birding, you'll have a rare opportunity of visiting Harrier Meadow, a 70-acre Meadowlands Commission marsh restoration site in North Arlington. (The link includes a nice aerial shot of the site.)
Harrier Meadow includes high marsh, meadows, tidal impoundment
areas and mudflats.
On a check of the site not too long ago, we saw many
dragonflies, peeps by the thousands, a gadwall with
ducklings, plus egrets and herons, pheasants and a northern flicker.
Yesterday, we saw peeps galore, dozens of great egrets and snowy egrets, great blue herons, laughing gulls and more.
Click "Continue reading" to read more about Harrier Meadow, see more images, and to let us know if you are interested in a pilot program that would open the meadow to small groups on a limited basis this fall.
Because of its location (you have to go through a landfill) and associated liability issues, the meadow is usually closed to the public.
But on Sept. 13, festival organizers will hold two
guided walks at the site, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 4:15 to
6 p.m. 
The meadow will also be open to festival-goers from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
on Sept. 13 for special bird-banding demonstrations.
The Meadowlands Commission wants to help more people to visit Harrier Meadow. If you would be interested in learning more about a pilot program that would enable you to be part of a group of 10 or fewer that visits the site, please e-mail Meadowlands Commission staffer Jim Wright.
We'd also like to hear what day of the week and what times of the day would appeal most to you -- plus any other suggestions you might have.
Please pass the word about this exciting new pilot program.
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