May 24, 2026
Nature Done Wright
Incorporating the Celery Farm and Screech Owl Companion blogs
Meadowlands Birding Festival
Sorry — thought I had posted this yesterday.
Saturday's Meadowlands Birding Festival was a terrific and well-attended event. Pretty cool for a festival had been on hiatus for several years.
DeKorte Park was beautiful as ever (gotta love that Manhattan skyline in the background), though I couldn't be sure that the bird below was a young Little Blue Heron. Needed to bring a camera with a telephoto.
Other pictures follow, including speaker Don Smith with an archival aerial image of the Meadowlnds and Giselle Smisko with an awesome Red-shouldered Hawk. Sorry for not getting a pic of my co-speaker, Ron Shields, who did a great job as well.
The Record's coverage of the festival is here.
The event was sponsored by Bergen Cunty Audubon Society and the NJ Sports and Exposition Authority. A shout-out to both.
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Great program! Especially the live raptors!





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camille
Great program! Especially the live raptors!