Nice story in The Record on the Celery Farm portion of the weekend's  Meadowlands Festival of Birding. Link is here.

Can you name the butterflies and the plants?

As I recall, this is what was left of a Skunk Cabbage plant in the Celery Farm on a recent walk-around.

My wife Patty did all the work to get this notice certifying our yard as an official wildlife habitat. It's a great program that helps makes your yard more attractive to all sorts of wildlife -- from birds to butterflies -- at a time when such land is at a premium.

More information is here. Get with the program!

Sandy Sorkin took the above shot of a Red-Shouldered Hawk at the beginning of Saturday's CF Walk.

  More of Sandy's pix from the walk are here.

  E-bird list of the birds seen on the walk (plus a few others that Dandy saw) follows. (Thanks, Sandy!)