Saturday, May 9: Big Day with Montclair Bird Club at Garret Mountain Reservation

Scarlet Tanager. Photo by Ric Cohn.

Meet Fred Pfeifer at 8 a.m. at Great Meadow Picnic Grove Parking Lot by the Great Meadow bathroom.

Saturday, May 9^th is New Jersey Audubon’s Big Day, a day to raise money for environmental causes and to draw attention to bird conservation. Teams set out to see and hear as many different bird species as they can in a 24-hour period. We’re not planning on birding for 24 hours, but we are going to try to see and hear as many species as we can within the park boundaries.

Garret Mountain Reservation in Woodland Park, NJ is a well-known migrant trap in the middle of metropolitan northern New Jersey. It’s 310 acres of woodlands, fields, a pollinator garden, and pond, commonly host a wide variety of spring migrants including warblers, flycatchers, tanagers, and vireos as well as many resident birds.

We will bird for as long as we can, but you can feel free to leave at any time.  If you’d like to, you may also use this opportunity to raise money for your favorite environmental organization: see the websites for New Jersey Audubon and Friends of Garret Mountain and if you would like to donate to any of them.

For more information and to express your interest email mbcoutings@gmail.com.