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Just for Laughs 6/19: Donna Jackins’ 60th Birthday Party In North Cape May PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALEKSEY MORYAKOV Mile, Chrissie, John 504 WASHINGTON STREET MALL 609-884-5466 * SCOPECAPEMAY.COM Tue-Fri 11-5 & Sat-Mon 10-6 Cape May’s Full-Service Jeweler Offering Custom Designs, Watch Batteries & Repairs Denise, Tammy, Magenta 510 CARPENTERS LANE l 609-854-4489 Shop online at trinketscapemay.com George, Stacey, Mark, Donna, Chris, Marc Page 38 EXIT ZERO July 1, 2021
Bird Droppings Dispatches from the nation’s birdwatching capital… by Seymore Thanu Cape May is so celebrated for our wealth of migrants, that our bounty of resident species gets short shrift. One of these is the Northern Mockingbird. You probably have one in your yard, a conservatively garbed Mimid that pours all its color into song. Capable of learning the songs of up to 200 birds over the course of its life, the standard repertoire of most male mockingbirds incorporates 10-15 songs or song parts in a set. They may also incorporate car alarms or doorbell chimes into their song set. Beginning in February, continuing into August, male mockingbirds will sing day or night, singing rings around their territories. Rival males that fail to get the message are vigorously pursued and these spirited tail chases may go on for several minutes or at least until the invading male gets the point. Females, too, vocalize but mostly in fall, perhaps as birds establish winter territories, because unlike many local songbird breeders, Northern Mockingbird is a permanent resident. Traditionally, a southern species as Harper Lee’s book attests. In the middle of the 20th Century, the birds began a northward expansion. While always part of Cape May’s birdlife, mockingbirds were absent in North Jersey. I recall the first one I encountered, in the vacant lot across the street. Despite the bird’s manifest traits, I questioned the bird’s identity, because my field guide showed North Jersey outside mockingbird’s range. Today, mockingbird is found coast to coast but still largely avoids most of Canada. It’s resident status notwithstanding, Cape May birders do note an up-ticking mockingbird numbers in late August and early September. This might relate to dispersal of young or actual migration of New England birds. In any event you will not have an uptick of tail chases in the weeks to come as your resident mocker tries to hold onto its territory. While not especially feeder birds, mockingbirds do eat suet and will consume raisins placed on an open tray. But these hardy birds seem happy with whatever native berries happen to be around. These and an old elevated TV antenna seem all that mockers want or need. For you under 20 somethings, a TV antenna was the way we used to get television reception before dish or cable. It was a wire contraption most often affixed to the tallest point on your house that was connected by a wire to your TV. Antennas not only brought us Philadelphia sports broadcasts but proved the ideal perch for vocalizing mockingbirds. July 1, 2021 EXIT ZERO Page 39
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