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August 19, 2009
By Jim Wright

The Bellvale Store

  If you've been to the wonderful Mount Peter Hawk Watch and continued on down Route 17A, you may be

August 18, 2009
By Jim Wright

Fund-raiser for the Thomas Scholarship

Jerry Barrack (left) and Jim Wright (wright)    Photo by Sally Teschon (Thanks, Sally!)       Seymour Drakes reports:    To

August 17, 2009
By Jim Wright

Great Egret fest at Celery Farm

   Counted 10 Great Egrets feeding in the shallows by the Pirie Platform, and two more flying, at dusk tonight.

August 17, 2009
By Jim Wright

Monday Morning Mystery 081709

   I recently found this bad boy in my house — he was not even paying rent. I evicted him.

August 13, 2009
By Jim Wright

Rob Fanning Report 081309

  Rob sez: Very slow morning–but it was salvaged by a PRAIRIE WARBLER along No Name Culvert–my earliest fall record for

August 12, 2009
By Jim Wright

Just Plain Nuts

  Seymour Drakes encountered this nutty Chipmunk near the Butterfly Garden recently. Seymour says he tried to pronounce the chipmunk's

August 11, 2009
By Jim Wright

Kevin Karlson Shorebird Day

   Seymour Drakes notes that noted avian photographer Kevin Karlson, who started his birding career at the Celery Farm, is

August 10, 2009
By Jim Wright

Monday Morning Mystery 081009

   Sally Teschon found these attractive and delicate fungi in the wood-chip pile at the north end of the Celery

August 8, 2009
By Jim Wright

Pileated Alert

  For what it's worth, Jim Morris reports he saw four Pileateds at Campgaw in Mahwah around noon today —