![]() ![]() The following are just some of the photographs, short films, and stories. ![]() Several are truly stand out events including the three pairs of Piping Plovers that nested on Cape Ann’s eastern edge, the most ever! The summer of 2021 also brought a tremendous up take in Monarch numbers, both breeding and migrating, and in autumn a rare wandering Wood Stork made its home on Cape Ann for nearly a month. 2021 has been an extraordinarily beautiful and exciting year for our local wildlife. Thinking about the wonderful wildlife stories that unfolded before us this past year I believe helps provide balance to the daily drone of the terrible pandemic. <3Ĭape Ann Wildlife – a year in pictures and stories To peace, love, and great health in 2022. ![]() 2021 was a fantastic year for the film, winning many awards, including honors at both environmental festivals and awards at family-oriented film festivals, We also had a very successful fundraiser that allowed us to re-edit the film, and to distribute Beauty on the Wing through American Public in order to bring to the widest television audience possible. I wish also to thank you for your kind support and contributions to our Monarch documentary, Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly. I would like to thank our wonderfully dedicated volunteer crew of Piping Plover Ambassadors, who provide round-the-day protections to one of Cape Ann’s most tender and threatened species. Thank you for your kind comments throughout the year. I am so grateful for blog, Facebook, and Instagram friendships, new and old. Wishing you peace, love and the best of health in 2022 – Happy New Year dear Friends. This entry was posted in #gloucesterplover, #monarchbutterflies, #monarchbutterflyfilmfundraiser, #nativeplants, #plantandtheywillcome, #ploverjoyed, #savesaltisland, #sharetheshore, #wildflowers, Beauty by the Sea, Beauty of Cape Ann, Beauty on the Wing ~ Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly, Birds, Birds of New England, birds of North America, Black Swallowtail Butterfly, Butterflies of Cape Ann, Butterflies of Massachusetts, Butterflies of New England, butterfly film, Butterfly Garden, Cape Ann, Cape Ann Wildlife, Cape Hedge Beach, conservation speaker massachusetts, Essex County, Film, Gloucester Plover, Gloucester sunset, Good Harbor Beach, Good News!, Home and Garden, Hummingbirds, Jesse cook, Kim Smith Films, Lepidoptera ~ Butterflies, Skippers, and Moths, Life at the Edge of the Sea, Lighthouses, Mariposa Monarca, MassWildlife, Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus), MONARCH BUTTERFLY FILM, Monarch Butterfly Migration, Monarchs in Mexico, Moths, Native Plants, Piping Plover, Piping Plover Chronicles, Snowy Owls, Songbirds, Wildflowers and tagged #noreaster, 2021 WILD CREATURES REVIEW!, American Copper, American Painted Lady, American Wood Stork, Beauty on the Wing ~ Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly, Black Swallowtail, Bluejay, Cecropia caterpillars, Charlotte, Charlotte Hauck, Cooper’s Hawk, Differential Grasshopper, Eastern Point Lighthouse, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, female Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Frieda Davis, Harbor Seal, Hoverflies, Iguana, Killdeer, Lonicers sempervirens John Clayton, luminescent sea salps, Meadow Anderson, Milkweed seed heads, Monarch caterpillar chrysalis, Monarch caterpillars, Monarchs Mating, Mourning Cloak, Northern Moon Snails, Orange Sulphur, Painted lady, Piping Plovers, Russell Orchards, Sally Golding, School Street Sunflowers, sea salps, Semi-palmated Plover, Shalin Liu, Silver-bordered Fritillary, Steller's Sea-Eagle, The Marvelous Magnificent Migrating Monarch, Todd Pover, wandering Wood Stork, Yellow Sulphur Butterfly, Yellow-rumped Warbler on Januby Kimsmithdesigns. Please write and let me know fellow bird lovers, are you too seeing Yellow-rumped Warblers? Perhaps this young warbler has been here all winter. Let’s hope the names Audubon’s and Myrtle will be reinstated □ Both names are much lovelier than the undignified ‘yellow-rumped,’ don’t you think? More research and DNA studies has revealed they are two distinct species. Until 1973, Yellow-rumped Warblers were listed as two different species, the western Audubon’s Warbler and the eastern Myrtle Warbler. Their diet consists of every imaginable insect, along with seeds, fruits, and berries including bayberry, myrtle, juniper, poison ivy, Virginia creeper, dogwood, grapes, poison ivy, grass and goldenrod seeds. Yellow-rumped warblers have a highly varied diet, which allows them to winter further north than any other warbler, including as far north as Nova Scotia. This little fellow was finding insects, seeds, and berries in the snow covered scrub line along the shore. One of the earliest warblers to migrate in spring, I don’t recall seeing a Yellow-rumped Warbler this early in the season. ![]()
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