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Cape May, NJ – If you want to walk on Higbee Beach, you’d best check the tide tables. Hurricane Sandy caused massive erosion, both of the Delaware Bay beach and the dunes. So much so that most of Higbee Beach now disappears at high tide. On this particular high tide, there was little [...]
Cape May – Garlic chives. How could a plant with a name like that prove irresistible to swarms of Painted Ladies? The white flowers hit their peak bloom in our garden in early September, just as the first crush of Ladies was passing through. Of course they had to stop and grab some nectar for [...]
Cape May, NJ – In a tangle of vines and tree limbs, set far away from roads and people, a pair of bald eagles is nesting below the canal on Cape Island. Barely visible above the nest’s thicket of branches almost a thousand feet away, an adult eagle pokes its white head out of the [...]
Cape May, NJ – Another Red-tailed Hawk! It was my 11th since leaving Cape May and I’d not even made it to Somers Point. The date was February 24 and spring was barely in the air. Red-tailed Hawks were in the air, doing what they always do when spring is about to pop in South [...]
Photo by Jerry Liguori Cape May, NJ – As we all know, the weather has been warmer in Cape May this month: green grass, no snow, and a warmer ocean. Add to that list the two Merlins that were terrorizing blackbirds in the fields along New England Road this week and it seems more like [...]
Here in Cape May, the warblers have migrated, the leaves have fallen from many trees, and robins are ravaging the beauty berries. For some, this is the end of the birding year, but to others, these are signs that the other birding season has begun. It’s time to put up the bird feeders and stock [...]
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