Sighting for September 1, 2013
Allan R. Loudell
Cape May Bird Observatory Garden, south Goshen
Cape May County, NJ
- Black Swallowtail 10
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 8
- Spicebush Swallowtail 12
- Cabbage White 12
- Orange Sulphur 2
- Gray Hairstreak 1
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
- American Snout 1
- Pearl Crescent 2
- American Lady 2
- Common Wood-Nymph 1
- Silver-spotted Skipper 8
- Least Skipper 1
- Peck's Skipper 1
- Sachem 8
- Zabulon Skipper 5
- Aaron's Skipper 3
- Broad-winged Skipper 5
Absence of Monarchs and Common Buckeyes is stunning.
Finally, two American Ladies, though.
Pleased to see American Snout, not always here.
Didn’t see any Cloudless Sulphurs in the CMBO Garden, but saw several dozen along and over the highway driving in and driving out in Cape May, Cumberland, and Salem Counties.