If you love the Celery Farm, you have to love Bruce Davis.

He is the guy who has increasingly taken over mowing and grooming the trails this past summer, time and time again, using a battery-powered push mower and battery-powered hedge trimmers.

Below is his handiwork earlier this week on the Green Way path.

Thanks, Bruce, and to everyone else who helps keep our nature preserve beautiful in these challenging times!

I volunteered to help count at the State Line Hawkwatch in Alpine on Tuesday morning. Thanks to a great bunch of hawk-eyed raptor watches, I think I recorded most of the migrating raptors that passed by.

As luck would have it, the big Broad-wing push came the afternoon before. We did have a nice variety of raptors, which I was too busy finding and counting to photograph.

I did take a few shots later --  of the lookout (above) and local Common Raven, Bald Eagle and Woodchuck (below).

The cafe is open for outdoor orders, and the Porto-Sans are there if you really, really have to go.

To check the counts at State Line, click here.

My column in The Record today is about the increasingly hard to find but very talkative Brown Thrasher, featuring an intervew with ace birder and birding tour guide Rick Wright (no relation).

You can download the column here:

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Losen Slote is one of my favorite birding spots in North Jersey, and Don Torino has written a beautiful post for Meadowblog about it.

Read it here.

Jerry Barrack took this photo in Sarasota, Fla., and wants to know what kind of fish the cormorant is eating...