| | |
|
|
|
|
Petty's Island today: view facing south with 36th Street Bridge lower left.
Viewed: 3135 times.
|
| A view of what the future Petty's Island could be: a wildlife reserve of forests, wetlands and meadows. A green oasis in one of the most developed areas in the United States. Your efforts will help make this vision a reality!
Viewed: 3075 times.
|
| Elmer Clegg, NJ bald eagle monitoring volunteer, posted these signs around the perimiter of the bald eagle nesting site.
Viewed: 2623 times.
|
|
| | |
| | |
|
|
|
|
Here's the nest of the bald eagle pair that have captivated newspaper headlines. The nest may look small, but it's about six feet across.
Viewed: 2388 times.
|
| The nest up close.
Viewed: 2153 times.
|
| |
| | |
| | |
|
|
|
|
Elmer Clegg with the eaglet. The young eagle was found to be in perfect health.
Viewed: 1980 times.
|
| Petty's Island has several freshwater ponds surrounded by emergent grasses and wetlands. They provide habitat for waterfowl and wading birds.
Viewed: 2255 times.
|
| A closer view of the opposite pond shore.
Viewed: 2102 times.
|
|
| | |
| | |
|
|
|
|
A view of what had been a dirt road, now overgrown with grasses and shrubs, on our way to the freshwater ponds on southern Petty's Island.
Viewed: 2101 times.
|
| A view looking west from the old dirt road, into what are essentially early successional trees. The most common on Petty's Island are cottonwoods, birches, paulownia, and a smattering of sweet gum and sycamore.
Viewed: 2101 times.
|
| Yellow-crowned and black-crowned night herons also nest on the island. We are looking at a heron rookery. The dark "splotches" in the tree are heron nests.
Viewed: 2258 times.
|
|
| | |
1 
