Julie McCall writes:

Saw a cool moth yesterday at CF, and thought I'd send it your way ....It's not the best photo ever taken, but I didn't want to go off trail to get closer. 

I was lingering around the Aisle A Dam this morning, trying to locate a  Swainson's Thrush that's been reported there for several days.  With the warm weather today, I finally started seeing more butterflies, and, at long last, some dragonflies.  So my eyes were darting at pretty much everything that moved, even if it wasn't bird-shaped.  I saw some fluttering, but thought, "That's too grey to be a butterfly..."  

Good thing I saw it in flight, because it chose just then to land, and simply melted into the tree bark.  I never would have seen it if I came upon it afterwards. 

Don Torino's latest column for wildnewjersey.tv is sadly funny.

Here's a sample:

Notify the CDC, Homeland Security, and Dr. Phil. The Zombie Apocalypse is upon us! Be warned! the victims of this latest zombie epidemic could be your neighbors, co-workers, government officials or, even as we speak, it could very well be a member of your very own family! ....

Sure your typical  run of the mill everyday zombie limps around and occasionally consumes some unsuspecting humans here and there, but these “Nature Zombies” are particularly insidious. 

They seem to walk and talk like the rest of us, but that is where the their similarities to all other citizens of this planet end. These zombies have lost all their connection to the natural world. They no longer find joy in a walk in the woods, a singing Yellow Warbler or a fluttering Monarch Butterfly. The song of a Wood Thrush just falls on their deaf zombified ears.

The link is here.

Rob sez:

Highlights from the Celery Farm this morning among 44 species incl. a continuing cooperative SWAINSON'S THRUSH near the dam (past the main entrance) This is the earliest one recorded for the CF, a singing MAGNOLIA WARBLER in the same area, and my first of year WILSON'S WARBLERS (2 singing males) one at barking dog corner and another very cooperative one near the butterfly garden.