Cape May is in the midst of an epic Monarch butterfly migration. This morning at Cape May Point SP, they were on every flower, and in huge numbers overhead.
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Among the half-million Monarchs in the area today, the Spousal Unit and I came across one with a tag from the Kansas University Monarch Watch program, tag number NMW 190. We reported the tag recovery by email.
Buckeye butterflies were also numerous:
We also saw lots of American Lady butterflies:
We didn’t participate in any organized bird walks today. There were a few nice raptors overhead (immature eagle sp., Osprey with fish, Peregrine Falcon, Coops & Sharpies). The stars of the day, though, were the 4 Black-bellied Whistling Ducks in a pond near the hawk watch:
The Buckeye is a butterfly, not a moth. The third butterfly looks like an American Lady.
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