It's been a week of steady monarch migration through Cape May, and our team has accomplished a lot of tagging. The seaside goldenrod is at peak bloom along the dunes at Cape May Point, but surprisingly we haven't seen many monarchs here. We've watched them taking off over Delaware Bay and heading to Mexico, but most of the nectaring monarchs have been seen in the local gardens. Friday's forecast suggests another good day for seeing monarchs at Cape May Point, but high winds are predicted for the weekend, and those are not good conditions for monarch viewing.
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Male monarch at a private garden in Cape May Point. |
Our education programs are wrapping up for the year. Last Sunday we held the year's final tagging demo at Cape May Point State Park. We are grateful for the hundreds of visitors who attended these programs. On Wednesday we held our final Triangle Park drop-in program for 2016. This weekend, both Saturday and Sunday, we'll offer short tagging demos at noon at the Cape May Convention Hall, part of the New Jersey Audubon Society's autumn festival, details here:
NJA Fall Festival.
Our field studies continue until October 31, so if you're around Cape May Point watch for members of our team. We're usually the only ones carrying butterfly nets. We're always happy to greet visitors and talk about monarch butterflies.
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Project volunteer Paige Cunningham tags a monarch at last Sunday's demo. |
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