Subject: Cape May Nature Notes, 6 July, 1995

From: Hank Brodkin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 08:17:14 -0700

These Nature Notes are excerpted from the Cape May RBA as transcribed to
the mail list Birdeast.

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        Hank Brodkin <[email-masked]> Marina Del Rey, CA
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Hotline:      Cape May Birding Hotline
Date:         June 22, 1995
Number:       609-884-2626
To Report:    609-884-2736
Coverage:     Cape May, Cumberland and Altantic Co., NJ
Compiler:     Cape May Bird Observatory staff
Transcriber:  L. Larson ([email-masked])

You have reached the Cape May Birding Hotline, a service of
the New Jersey Audubon Society's Cape May Bird Observatory.
Highlights for the week ending June 22 include sightings of
WHITE PELICAN, ROSEATE TERN, LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL,
announcements, nature notes, etc.

(bird stuff deleted)

The state of NJ has closed the parking lots at Higbee Beach
WMA again for the summer. This does not mean that Higbee
Beach is closed, just the parking lots. You can still bird
and butterfly the area, but you must be dropped off there,
ride a bike, or park in the Hidden Valley parking lot
further up New England Road and walk down. The parking lot
closures are the state's attempt to address illicit
activities that occur there during warm summer months.

Nature Notes: A very late PINE ELFIN butterfly was seen on
June 17 on the Dennisville railroad tracks. Finally the
summer butterflies are emerging; reports came in of
RED-BANDED HAIRSTREAK, CORAL HAIRSTREAK, STRIPED
HAIRSTREAK, MOURNING CLOAK, COMMON BUCKEYE, APPALACHIAN
BROWN, CROSS-LINED SKIPPER and TAWNY-EDGED SKIPPER.
Cranberry bogs are full of BOG COPPERS flying now. A field
at Peaslee Wildlife Area in northern Cape May county had
hundred of AMERICAN COPPERS and EASTERN TAILED BLUES. CMBO
Butterfly counts are upcoming on June 24, June 30, and July
1.

Flowers that are now attracting butterflies include Queen
Anne's Lace, Yarrow, Common Milkweed, Butterfly Weed,
Everlasting Pea, Cow Vetch, Sweet White Clover and Sweet
Yellow Clover, Knapweed, and Dogbane. The wild viburnum
known as Arrow-wood is now in bloom, with umbels of white
flowers.

[Program Information Omitted]

The Cape May Bird Observatory is a research and education
unit of the New Jersey Audubon Society. Our aim is to
perpetuate and preserve the ornithological significance of
Cape May. Your membership supports these goals and this
birding hotline. For more information regarding Cape May
birding, our programs and field trips, and the Observatory,
call our office at 609-884-2736 or a send a request for
info to CMBO, P.O. Box 3, Cape May Point, NJ 08212. If you
are in the area, do not hesitate to visit our headquarters
and growing birding bookstore at 707 E. Lake Dr., Cape May
Point. We're open 9-5 every day but Monday.

The Cape May birding hotline [(609) 884-2626] is a service
of Cape May Bird Observatory and includes sightings from
Cape May, Atlantic, and Cumberland counties and adjacent
areas. Updates are made on Thursday evening, more often if
warranted. [Compiled by CMBO staff; transcribed by L.
Larson ([email-masked]).] Please report
sightings of rare or unusual birds to CMBO at (609)
884-2736. Thank you for calling; good birding.

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