In case you missed it, here's the talk I did for the Fyke Nature Association about one of my favorite places... The Clove at High Mountain in Wayne, N.j.

For a limited time only.

My recent column in The Record and other USA Today newspapers in New Jersey profiled a Peregrine Falcon dubbed "the Beast" -- she rules the roost at the State Line Hawk Watch in Alpine.

Apparently another "Beast" hung out on the Palisades 80 years -- before it was drafted into the Army and shipped to Fort Monmouth, N.J.  Its name: Thunderbolt.

Here's how The New York Times reported it back on August 8, 1941.

I wasn't able to find anything more recent.

The Celery Farm Nature Preserve is open but trails are very muddy and slippery in places.

Take care if you go.

Bond's Bird Eggs, Friday night via Zoom, 6:30 p.m.

This colorfully illustrated talk for the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology in California will focus on Bond, the Fleming connection, and some of the birds, bird eggs (including two Harpy Eagle eggs from the WFVZ) and other species that Bond collected.

The foundation roughly 60 sets of eggs that Bond collected in the West Indies.

There’ll be some 007 moments as well, in keeping with the new James Bond movie, No Time to Die.

You can register for this talk here.

You can learn more about the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology here.

                      Photo courtesy Steve Sachs photography

My latest column for The Record and other USA Today newspapers in NJ is all about the Beast, the big attraction at the State Line Hawk Watch in Alpine.

Tomorrow on this blog: Before the Beast, eight decades ago, there was...

You can read my column about the Beast here: