Flash!

 Connecticut Warbler -- photo by DAVID SPEISER



 Rebekah Creshkoff writes this morning:

I believe I saw a Connecticut Warbler at the south end of the Loch at 9:30 this morning. I heard it first; it was chipping occasionally, and I assumed it was a waterthrush — until I saw it, that is. Large warbler, bright yellow below, olive above; I didn't register gray on the head. White eye ring. Foraging in streamside vegetation. Could you please tell the world? Thanks!

So...I'm telling the world!

Once-married

No, I'm not announcing a change in my marital status.The Once-married Underwing [Catocala unijuga] was one of the more common moths that came to our light in the old days, the ones I wrote about in Central Park in the Dark. The moth pictured below, however,  was photographed last night in Maine by a  Central Park friend, Jean Dane, who spends her summers in Maine.

The Once Married [Catocala Unijuga] ---9/3/12 -- photo by Jean Dane