Fyke Nature Association's annual free Tom Burr Memorial Butterfly Walk is Saturday, July 16, from 10:30 to noon. We meet at Green Way.

The walk is named for the late Tom Burr. You can read more about him here.

I am unofficially calling it a butterfly hunt this year, because these guys have been hard to find. Some of the native plants that attract them are blooming these days so who knows? Maybe we'll get lucky.

We'll walk around the natural area, looking for butterflies, dragonflies and whatever else we can turn up.

This a family-friendly event -- just be aware of ticks and possible poison ivory (as Daughter Corie used to call it).

Long pants and bug spray make common sense. A bottle of water wouldn't hurt either if the heat wave continues..

Please rsvp. Details follow.

Mimi Sabatino, a friend of this blog, passed along this photo and wondered what kind of moth it is. 

I think I have photographed one at High Mountain, camouflaged on a tree, and I have a general idea of what it is.

Do you?

(And did I mention that our 5th Annual Moth Night is Sunday, July 31, at the Fell House, featuring S'Moths and S'Mores?)

Last month, Went on a walking tour of the Pequannock Watershed (access is by permit only) and wrote about it for The Record.

What warblers and other breeding birds!  The link is here.

The photo above is a Chestnut-sided Warbler, taken that day by Fred Virrazzi. (Thanks, Fred!)

Below are assorted other awesome critter shots taken that day by Ron Shields. (Thanks, Ron!)

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Fyke Nature Association's annual free Tom Burr Memorial Butterfly Walk is Saturday, July 16, from 10:30 to noon. We meet at Green Way.

The walk is named for the late Tom Burr. You can read more about him here.

We'll walk around the natural area, looking for butterflies, dragonflies and whatever else we can turn up. (The butterflying has been a bit slow so far this summer, but we are hoping it picks up.)

This a family-friendly event -- just be aware of ticks and possible poison ivory (as Daughter Corie used to call it). Long pants and bug spray make common sense. A bottle of water wouldn't hurt either.

Please rsvp. Details follow.

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.. is now cleared of vegetation and open again for sitting.