DeKorte Park, 1 p.m., Thursday.
Last year, by our unscientific count, the first one bloomed on June 15. Link is here.
The big banner went up in DeKorte Park's Butterfly Garden last week -- letting everyone know that the big Meadowlands Festival of Birding is less than two weeks away now.
For more information about this event, sponsored and hosted by the Meadowlands Commission, click here.
Coming soon, a video of Harrier Meadow, one of the many attractions of the fest.
The South Bergenite has posted a neat slide show of images, including a black skimmer at DeKorte Park, taken this summer by an NJMC staffer.
Here's the link.
The Meadowlands Commission is adding another weapon in its battle to increase biodiversity in the 30.4-square-mile district.
This week, Commission naturalists reintroduced saltmarsh
bulrush, a valuable wetlands plant, at several sites in the Meadowlands.
The
sites included the the Mill Creek Marsh in
Secaucus and Harrier Meadow in North Arlington, with more sites planned down the road.
Click "Continue reading ..." for more information and photos.
Birder Mike Britt, a friend of this blog, today reported the immature white ibis, three marbled godwits, two Caspian terns and 10 kestrels in the DeKorte Park area of Lyndhurst.
Click "Continue reading ... " for his report to Jersey Birds e-mail list.
Continue reading "BIRD ALERT: Marbled godwits and the white ibis" »
We've noticed this plant starting to bloom in a few
places in the Meadowlands -- such as Secaucus High School Marsh and the Marsh Discovery Trail in Lyndhurst.
We asked one of our experts at the Meadowlands Commission, Dr. Ross Feltes, and he identified it as saltmarsh fleabane -- a.k.a. sweetscent or Pluchea odorata.
Feltes, a naturalist, reports that "it commonly colonizes disturbed brackish wetlands."
He adds: "In past years it has grown on top of the cedar stumps in the impoundments at Mill Creek Marsh, making for an unusual, but pretty, feature."
We saw it there this week (below).
New Jersey Audubon's Pete Bacinski and Scott Barnes had a nice column in the Star-Ledger on Saturday that highlighted birding along the Meadowlands' mud flats. Read it here.
The New Jersey Meadowlands Commission is participating in a federal program to measure sea levels as part of the commission's efforts to assess the vitality of its marshes and to prepare for flooding that could
result from global warming.
Measurements using a nifty gizmo
called a sediment elevation table (pictured to right) are being taken by NJMC's scientific arm, the Meadowlands
Environmental Research Institute (MERI).
The Meadowlands Commission's sea-level monitoring is one of the first of its kind in New Jersey.
Click "Continue reading" to learn more about sea-level rise and why it is significant to the region's marshes.
We'd like to thank The Star-Ledger on-line (NJ.com) for making the Meadowlands Blog its blog of the day on Friday.
Read what The Star-Ledger's Kelly Heyboer had to say here.
A blog about the nature of the Meadowlands, in northern New Jersey.
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