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ARDEN’S KIDS GIFTS & CLOTHING 10/2: Baby Shower For Kaleigh Lardani At Red Brick Ale House PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALEKSEY MORYAKOV Sara, Gina, Kaliegh, Janice, Cindy OPEN DAILY Washington Common, Cape May 609-884-8643 l lynnardens.com Books... your best friend Angela, Mary, Jane Cape Atlantic Book Company OPEN @ 10am City Centre Mall 2nd floor Washington Street Mall, Cape May (609) 846-7688 • capeatlanticbookco.com Gerri, Carol, Kim Page 38 EXIT ZERO October 14, 2021
I fear that regular readers of this column are about to be treated to a run-on series of hawk watch related columns. First, Cape May is one of the few locations where migrating hawks concentrate in migration. You could spend a lifetime studying birds and not see the number of hawks an observer can study in a single hour on a good flight day. Second, I consider birds of prey the most fascinating of all bird groups. Third, watching hawks demands little effort. You sit on the hawk watch platform and the birds come to you. And finally, hawks are not the only birds passing in review. There are hordes of Tree Swallows, periodic bursts of shorebirds and the ever-present possibility that something rare might fly by. Saturday we were treated to the passage of a Sandhill Crane, a large stately bird found in the Western United States. You need not worry about your rudimentary field identification skills. There are lots of experienced eyes on the platform and everyone freely shares their knowledge. Hawk watching above all other brands Bird Droppings Dispatches from the nation’s birdwatching capital… by Seymore Thanu of birding is highly social. Every trip to the hawk watch puts me in contact with hosts of old friends and new acquaintances. Just like a hawk flight, no two days have the same mix of observers. On Saturday, I had the opportunity to spend the afternoon with Dr. Joe Jell, author of the Birds of Churchill (Manitoba) and authority on grebes and Thayer’s Gull (now a subspecies of Iceland Gull but formerly considered a distinct species). Joe, a Thayer’s Firster invited my opinion which sides with the lumpers, not the splitters, but despite our differing regard, we had a spirited discussion, in which I was much the junior partner. Despite our 10-year age difference, Joe and I shared the same mentor, Floyd Wolfarth. On Sunday, surrounded by an assembly of former Cape May hawk counters, I was treated to a visit from my close friend and New Jersey Audubon board member Wayne Greenstone, one of the kindest, gentlest, people to draw breath. We chatted for three hours about books, birds, environmental concerns and his late wife Else, hawk counter at the Montclair Hawk watch and one of the finest hawk counters to raise binoculars toward the sky. Else’s eyes were amazing were able to locate birds that were barely sub-orbital. Even if you don’t know anyone on the platform, it is impossible to not be engaged and engaging. Kick back and enjoy one of nature’s grandest spectacles. I hope to see you on the watch and raise glasses together under raptor-filled skies. October 14, 2021 EXIT ZERO Page 39
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