With all the fuss over the Snowy Owl(s), another recent arrival has gotten short shrift.
A Eurasian Green-winged Teal (Common Teal) is in the tidal impoundment across the parking lot from the new science building and observatory in DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst.
He has been a regular winter visitor for roughly a decade, and you typically can get great views of him when the tide is low...
More on the Eurasian Green-winged Teal here.
To calculate the tides at the DeKorte tidal impoundments, click here, look up Hackensack River, Amtrak RR, swing bridge, punch in the appropriate information -- then add roughly 90 minutes... Alas, low tides for the next couple of days appear to be just before dawn and after sunset...
So all the fuss was about a green winged teal. Another great picture by the way
Posted by: | January 05, 2009 at 12:36 PM