This is an easy one for many -- a raptor's eye view of a popular hawk watch.

I took the photo seven years ago while doing a flight for The Nature Conservancy and LightHawk. (Thanks, TNC and LightHawk!)

Note the rock slide in the photo. This is why I cringe whenever I see clueless folks climb over the wall and sit on the edge of the cliff.

This is the fourth of five Monday hawk watch mysteries.

You can view the other three here:

https://www.celeryfarm.net/2023/09/monday-hawk-watch-mystery-090423.html

https://www.celeryfarm.net/2023/09/monday-morning-mystery-091123.html

https://www.celeryfarm.net/2023/09/monday-morning-mystery-091823.html

On Monday, I wrote:

Took this photo above at the end of August, the calm before the human storm at this hawk watch.

Took the aerial photo below back in 2017, with the help of LightHawk and The Nature Conservancy.

Where is it?

Everyone who answered got it right: the famed hawk watch at Cape May Point.

I helped count at State Line yesterday,

Here are the totals:

Bazillion lanternflies, including one that try to steal the clipboard (above).  He paid dearly.

Otherwise great day

The first of the Monarchs nurtured at Lee Memorial Library was released yesterday to great applause.

The butterfly, named Skippy the Peanut-Butter-Fly by Josh because he (the butterfly) made his chrysalis in a Skippy peanut butter jar, is likely on his way to Mexico.

A second butterfly, Sunbeam (below), should be released today. A third, soon.

You can watch the world's shortest video of Skippy's release here:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lOdFDaTi7AY.

Photo above by Nancy Clauss; video by Melissa Brandes.

The first of three Monarch butterfly caterpillars at Allendale's  Lee Memorial Library has emerged from its chrysalis (left). The new Monarch butterfly (right) will be released tomorrow (Wednesday) at 3:30 p.m..

Maybe it will check out the new pollinator garden before likely setting out for Mexico or possibly Florida!

(Thanks to Library Director Nancy Clauss who found the caterpillars and took these great photos,)

A great post on Monarchs from NJ Audubon is here:

https://njaudubon.org/monarch-life-cycle/

TURTLE CROSSING!

While walking in Crestwood Park yesterday, I found this baby Snapping Turtle. I carried it to the side of the road in the direction it was headed.

To give you an idea of how small these guys are, the dot in the middle of the photo at left is the turtle.