Mokka mit Schlag » Birding

Summer Azure, Celastrina neglecta
Ridgewood Reservoir, 2007-06-30
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Last Sunday, 2007-06-17, Peter Dorosh led a small contingent from the Brooklyn Bird Club to explore Somerset County in New Jersey. The first stop was the Negri-Nepote-Leni Preserve, a grasslands area surrounded by farms. We got there about 7:45 A.M., and almost immediately Sandi Paci heard a Prairie Warbler, which we soon located:

There were numerous other birds in the area: Northern Cardinal, American Goldfinch, Cedar Waxwing, Brown-headed Cowbird, Eastern Towhee, House Wren, Mourning Dove, Blue Jay, Northern Mockingbird, Gray Catbird, Chickadee (probably Black-capped), Eastern Kingbird, and so many Indigo Buntings that we eventually stopped looking at each individual. There were quite a few Chipping Sparrows in the tree line, and numerous sparrows in the tall grass, which we kept hoping would turn into Grasshopper Sparrows, but persisted in remaining Field Sparrows. :-)
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Little Wood Satyr, Megisto cymela
Ward Pound Ridge, 2007-06-24

Calopteryx maculata
Blackwood Mills, Somerset County, New Jersey, 2007-06-17

Black-and-yellow Lichen Moth Lycomorpha pholus
Orange-patched Smoky Moth Pyromorpha dimidiata
Sourland Mountain Preserve, Somerset County, New Jersey, 2007-06-17
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Common Whitetail, Plathemis lydia
Sourland Mountain Preserve, 2007-06-17