July 2020
Summer is in full force in July. Around Cape May, insects are thriving, from troublesome mosquitoes and biting flies to the more charismatic butterflies and dragonflies. Birds are active too, many wrapping up the breeding cycle and starting to wander and some even starting to migrate. I'm usually traveling for much of July, but in this pandemic year I had opportunities to fully experience the Cape May summer.
Above: Halloween Pennant. Below, left to right: Needham's Skimmer, Eastern Pondhawk, Black Saddlebags, Blue Dasher
Some summer butterflies of Cape May, clockwise from top left: Pearl Crescent, Common Sootywing, Horace's Duskywing, Broad-winged Skipper, Common Wood Nymph, Red Admiral, Dion Skipper.
Above: Red-winged Blackbird
Below: Fledgling Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Above: Osprey
Below: Lesser Black-backed Gull
Red-headed Woodpecker
Young Glossy Ibis
Blue Grosbeak
Marsh Wren
Common Tern
Least Tern
Swamp Darner
Rose Mallow
Trumpet Creeper
Comet Neowise over the South Cape May Meadows, 7/14/20