Hey Tweeties, Grab your bird list, binoculars and a bird book. Check out the who's who of New Jersey birds! Be sure to visit https://njaudubon.org/ for more great tips about birding.

Places to go bird watching:

The Celery Farm-Allendale

Overpeck Park (THE place for spotting Bald Eagles)

Meadowlands

Garrett Mountain

Liberty State Park

Sandy Hook (As long as you're going, might as well pack the swimming suits)

Ahoy! Grab your family and friends and create and perform your own original sea shanty. Send us the video to post on the library's Facebook page. The best sea shanty video will win a $25 gift card to Rita's Italian Ice and Frozen Custard. The Glen Rock location is Kosher-certified.  

What are sea shanties?  

Sea shanties are a type of work song sung by sailors during the 19th century. The shanties were usually sung to accompany the rhythmical labor aboard aboard merchant sailing ships. Dead Man's Chest is the most familiar shanty. You can make it funny like this one by The Trailor Park Boys or serious like this one from The Pirateers. YouTube lots of sea shanties to give you some ideas for your own.

When you have your video ready, call Reference at 201-796-3400 ext.2 to get directions on how to send it to us.

Still have those pesky COVID pounds stubbornly clinging to you? Ugh, I know I do. Well get up off of your tail, grab a pedometer and get moving! You can:

Paddle the Meadowlands in a canoe or kayak. There are a couple of companies that will take you out on a tour.  

Go to the zoo.  

Play mini golf.  

Go back in time at a battlefield: 

• Monmouth Battlefield State Park,  
• Washington Crossing State Park, 
• or Princeton Battlefield State Park.  

Hunt for "Cape May Diamonds" on Sunset Beach in Cape May.  

Go tubing on the Delaware-there are lots of outfitters who will provide everything you need for a chill float down the river.  

Whatever you decide to do, don't forget your sunblock!

What you need:

● assorted junk

● masking or duct tape

Everyone has unwanted junk around their house. Find some of that junk and use it to buildyour own monster. Some examples: a large swatch of fake fur, sticks, plastic tubing,newspaper, bubble wrap, alum

A Haiku is a form of poetry that does not rhyme and has only seventeen syllables divided into three lines:

Line One: five syllables

Line Two: seven Syllables

Line Three: five syllables

Write a haiku about the ocean!

Small gestures make the most difference on a daily basis. It's easy to get so preoccupied with our own lives that we forget about others, but with just one simple act of kindness, we can change the way someone else's day goes, and we can better ourselves and the world in the process. This challenge is designed for you to take the time to do something for someone else — and hopefully they will pay it forward to the next person!

Books can take you around the world and back, even if you're only in your backyard! Show us all the fun and exciting places you read by marking each place you read. Get out and read!