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Join the Bayonne Nature Club by coming to a bird walk, meeting or shoreline clean-up. We charge no dues, just come when you can. We look forward to seeing you!
Find us on FaceBook at Bayonne Nature Club. That's where we share photos and talk about our latest bird sightings. Below is our current NEWSLETTER:
This page was last updated: March 29, 2018
Scroll down for some incredible bird and butterfly videos taken
by Mike Ruscigno in Bayonne, NJ published on "You Tube"
Here are our last two events in March:
Saturday, Bird Walk, March 31 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am at Lefante Walk. Meet behind Otaiko Restaurant, South Cove Commons Mall, off Rt 440. Spring is coming, more species of birds will begin coming through. We’ll bring the scope!
Here is the April, 2018 newsletter!
1. Thursday, April 5 at 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm MEETING at the Bayonne Public Library on Ave. C and 31st Street in the downstairs small conference room. The book exchange is very popular, so we’ll continue it. Bring any books you have to share, bring back what you took last time, see what new books we’ll have at this meeting!
2. Thursday Bird Walks: April 5, 12, 19 and 26 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am. Meet at the big wood gazebo in Stephen Gregg Hudson County Park. We’ll be looking for signs of spring. This is a good time for woodpeckers. Ducks and loons are heading north but a few may be on Newark Bay. Bring your binoculars, we’ll bring the scope.
3. Saturday Bird Walks will be April 7 and 28 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am at Lefante Walk. Meet behind Otaiko Restaurant, South Cove Commons Mall, off Rt 440. Spring is coming, more species of birds will begin coming through. Bring your binoculars. We’ll bring the scope!
4. Saturday, April 14, Flea Market Fund Raiser at 56th Street Senior Center from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. We're going to have large collection of indoor plants. All donation dollars go to the Club to pay for our web site and buy snacks and water for our shoreline clean-up volunteers.
Also on Saturday, April 14 from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm SHREDDING at Stephen Gregg Hudson County Park. Bring any personal documents you need to have shredded up to 40 pounds. Please remove all metal clamps. See www.hcia.org scroll to bottom.
5. Saturday, April 21, 9:00 am to 11:00 am Earth Day - Shoreline Clean-up at Rutkowski Park. Meet at the gate down from 48th Street in Gregg Hudson County Park. Dress for dirty work, wear boots. Tools, garbage bags, gloves, snacks and water will be provided. Let’s clean up one of Bayonne’s favorite nature areas. Afterward join us in Celebration of Earth Day at 16th Street Park where the City of Bayonne will be providing treats.
Be sure to tell your friends! Join the Bayonne Nature Club by coming to a bird walk, meeting or shoreline clean-up or help with the butterfly garden and/or by displaying your photos at the library. Find us on FACEBOOK. We charge no dues. We are nature enthusiasts and activists. Please consider making a donation. We hope to see you soon!
Welcome
to the Bayonne
Nature Club!
BAYONNE NATURE CLUB
Appreciating, protecting and improving urban nature sites
Above picture taken by Susan Hill. 7/2012.
Donate to Bayonne Nature Club:
We have expenses too: the cost of the web site, the cost of water and snacks for the shoreline clean-up volunteers and the bird feeder campaign. We also purchase nature/science books and donate them to the Public Library.
If you have items appropriate for flea markets/rummage sales that you would be willing to give up, we will pick them up and sell them and keep the proceeds as a donation. Please click on the contact button below, tell us what you have.
Sorry! We are not a 501(c)3.
This King Rail and chick was seen in Bayonne NJ, July 26, 2014 from Lefante Walk.
This Clapper Rail was seen in Bayonne NJ, August, 2012. A Marsh Wren is singing in the tall grass out of sight.
This Yellow-crowned Night Heron was seen in Bayonne NJ June, 2013. Video by Michael Ruscigno.
The first Bald Eagle seen in Hudson County, NJ in over 50 years. Eagle populations are increasing in NJ as the rivers become cleaner. This is why we fight for cleaner rivers. Video taken on Feb. 25, 2015 by Mike Ruscigno.
These male Wood Ducks were seen competing with each other March 10, 2016 off Lefante Walk in Bayonne NJ.
Bobolink singing in field at Newark Bay Waterfront Walkway. May 2016. Video by Mike Ruscigno. This is not a common bird for this area. Its song is unusual. Some say it sounds like R2D2 of Star Wars. Does it?
A Clapper Rail builds a nest June 7, 2016. Mike Ruscigno took this video from Lefante Walk, Bayonne NJ.
This video confirms that Oyster Catchers were seen at the Cove of Liberty State Park. Better yet, the immature seen in this video confirms that there was a successful nesting.
Video taken by Mike Ruscigno.
A Merlin (falcon) devours a Mockingbird from high up in a tree. Video taken Oct. 7, 2016 at Lincoln Park in Jersey City, NJ. Video by Mike Ruscigno.
To see more pictures taken by our Bayonne Nature Club members, Follow us on FACEBOOK.
September 29, 2017 Mike Ruscigno discovers the first American Bittern anyone has recorded off Lefante Walkway, South Cove Commons mall. These birds are very secretive and Mike took this video early in the morning as the sun rose and the tide went down.
Below is a Buckeye butterfly and a Painted Lady. Both were seen at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ on October 6, 2017
Dickcissel, a singing male, was seen in the Ocean Terminal fields on June 23, 2017
A Snowy Owl visits the roof top of a house in Bayonne NJ. We named her Eve because she came to roost in our town on Christmas Eve. See the video by Mike Ruscigno below.
Snowy Owl seen on Dec. 24, 2018. We named her Eve in honor of the day. Photo by Patricia Hilliard.
