WILD NEW JERSEY: Focus on the Meadowlands: Great Egrets, Whistler Afternoon, House Finch
Focus on the Meadowlands: Great Egrets, Whistler Afternoon, House Finch
Photos courtesy of Jim Wright, The N.J. Meadowlands Commission
by Jim Wright, The N.J. Meadowlands Commission
We are still seeing plenty of Great Egrets in the Meadowlands, including DeKorte Park and Harrier Meadow. We have watched as many as five of these graceful birds fly overhead at once this month.
The hues in this late afternoon view of high tide in the Saw Mill Creek mud flats in DeKorte Park reminded me of paintings by James McNeill Whistler, who liked to combine the natural and the manmade in his impressionist seascapes. So I took this picture, just not as good as the other JW.
This House Finch was hanging out in DeKorte Park’s Lyndhurst Nature Reserve last week – also saw a few Brown Creepers and Ruby-crowned Kinglets, but they were too over-caffeinated to be photographed.
Jim Wright writes, photographs, maintains a nature blog (www.meadowblog.net) and does slide shows and walks for the N.J. Meadowlands Commission. "Focus on the Meadowlands" features some of his recent photos of the area's natural wonders.
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