Category Archives: Migration

From South to North: Spectacular!

Red admiral, photo by Pat Sutton in Goshen (Cape May County) 5/4/12. Hey, everyone: Whew! Can this continue? If you are new to our log and blog and have come here in response to the red admiral, American lady, and … Continue reading

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Send your reports about today’s flight

Red admirals nectaring on black cherry, part of the ginormous flight today, 5-4-12, photo by Pat Sutton in Goshen (Cape May County). This is just a rushed note, hoping to solicit responses from anyone who observed today’s huge flight of … Continue reading

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April Compilation: The Action Continues

Variegated fritillary, photo by Will Kerling, Cape May Courthouse (Cape May Co), 4-30-12. Male pipevine swallowtail, photo by Ro Wilson, Medford Leas (Burlington Co) 4-17-12 Depending on how you count, one or the other of the species above was our … Continue reading

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Please Note Red Admiral Irruption

This morning’s rain (Wednesday 5/2/12 a.m.) might put a temporary hold on yesterday’s massive flight of red admirals seen throughout South Jersey (apparently) as well as northward. If this irruption follows pattern of past years, we should see more of … Continue reading

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A Thousand Entries, Two New Skippers, & Admiral Immigration

Least skipper, photo’d by Chip Krilowicz, Supawna Meadows, Salem Co, 4-20-12 We have reached 1100 entries for April with more than a week left to go. (Last year we totaled 880 for the whole month.) And our log’s year list, … Continue reading

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Black Witch, Cape May Point

Photograph by Clay Sutton, Cape May Point State Park, 10-28-11 A rare wanderer drew the attention of observers’ eyes yesterday at Cape May Point, but it wasn’t a migratory hawk, shorebird, or warbler…. As reported by the Cape May Bird … Continue reading

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“Pied Piper” Migration?

Fiery skipper by W. Kerling, 8/16/11 The recent reports of sleepy orange, gulf fritillary, and fiery skippers on our log sent me searching for a term. What should we call the apparently-doomed northbound flights we see most falls of those … Continue reading

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