Focus on the Meadowlands: Dabbling Pintail, Solar Array, Lingering Yellowlegs


Photos courtesy of Jim Wright, The N.J. Meadowlands Commission

by Jim Wright, The N.J. Meadowlands Commission

If you ever doubted that Northern Pintails were dabbling ducks, this shot from DeKorte Park’s Teal Pool last week captures a male Pintail red-handed, so to speak. The ducks like to dabble in the mud in search of vegetative matter and small invertebrates to eat.



Workers have been putting the finishing touches on a new solar canopy for a DeKorte Park parking lot. The solar array will provide 20 percent of the power used by the nearby Meadowlands Commission Administration Building. The solar array in the background helps provide electricity for the park’s Center for Environmental and Scientific Education.



Credit a mild winter, but we have been seeing quite a few Great Egrets and yellowlegs in the Meadowlands well into January. These Greater Yellowlegs were hanging out at the Clay Avenue wetlands in Lyndhurst last week.

 


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. 

Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 1/18/2012 7:00 AM
Categories: Focus on the Meadowlands
Tags: northern pintails DeKorte Park birds Meadowlands solar greater yellowlegs
 

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