Ruby-throated hummingbirds will be returning to North Jersey any day now. Photo by A. Pomerantz
My latest column for The Record is all about hummingbirds, just in time fir their imminent arrival in North Jersey. You can read it here:
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He stopped by our feeders for a bite while I was parking the car. Rolled down the window for the shot. You can glimpse the yellow shafts on the tail feathers. Moustache means it's a male.
The Hudson Valley's Journal News has a neat story about a special nesting platform that workers built for ospreys that nest on the Bear Mountain Bridge every year.
The raptors tended to make messes and drop sticks on the traffic below. Problems solved.
You can read it here (hopefully):
Following a long-standing policy established by the late greatMarsh Warden Stiles Thomas, the Celery Farm Natural Area will be closed today, April 1, to give all newly arrived waterfowl time to plan for their upcoming stays at the sanctuary.
Sorry if you were planning a visit, but as they say in the insurance biz, policies are policies.
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Sheila MacMahon writes: