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Archives for July, 2012:

Swarms of solitary bees

Last week at Cape May Point, several stretches of trail were swarming with ground-nesting solitary bees!  I think they are Ptilothrix bombiformis, known as hibiscus bees.  Fording the swarm was not [...]

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Yellow Submarine

The good luck with turtle sightings continues! On a 12 mile kayak paddle along a remote stretch of the Delaware Bay shoreline, we saw an adult loggerhead sea turtle surface ahead of us a short dist [...]

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Warbling in the flatlands

Here's a Worm-eating Warbler, one of the highlights of our last trip to band birds in the swampy woods  near Cape May.  They are a relatively common nesting species in the deep woods of south Jerse [...]

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