Marsh Warden Mike Limatola and I did a practice Moth Night at the Fell House last week and got a lot of great-looking bugs -- beginning with the guy at the top.

Stay tuned to this blog for more information on Moth Night at the Fell House -- it's currently a work in progress, and we are still ramping up.

If anybody could help with the IDs... We think the guy above is a Sphinx Moth, and a large one at that...

More moth pix follow...

We are holding our umpteenth annual Celery Farm Butterfly Walk on Saturday, July 21, at 10:30 a.m.  

The only change this year is that we have named the walk after Tom Burr, who often led this walk with charm and great humor. 

Full info follows.

John Pastore writes:

Got some nice shots of the Black-Crowned Night Heron that seems to frequently roost on the Warden's Watch peninsula this past Thursday morning.

And the Red-Shouldered Hawk stopped by in a tree on my neighbor's property, kindly waiting for me to get my camera and tripod.  

In the shot of the bird launching from the tree, you can see a band on its leg (which means it's Laura).

(Thanks, John!)

Pat O'Shea asks if anyone can ID these bugs, found in her Passaic yard.

This shot of the path to the Warden's Watch is from February 2010.

Petty cool...