October 27, 2026
Monday Mystery Answered
On Monday I wrote… Yesterday morning, top Celery Farm Nature Preserve birder Julie McCall saw an unusual-looking hawk over the…
I get to see Snow Geese so rarely — and almost never on the ground — that it was a treat to receive the above photo from David Hackbarth.
He took the photo in his yard along the Wanaque River in Pompton Lakes last week.
Last I checked, it had not been reported on eBird in Passaic County this year, and only once (at Parsons Pond on New Year's Day) in Bergen.
For more about Snow Geese, click here:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Snow_Goose/id
(Thanks, David!)