Come-see-ums:On New Jersey's Bayshore, summer's the time for mudflats and marshes, not beaches

摘要

The curtain of silence that falls on June woodlands drives birders to find other diversions. You can cut the lawn, play golf, or head for your region's shorebird destinations.Where I live, this means the Brigan-tine Division of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, north of Atlantic City, or the largely unbirded Delaware Bayshore. By mid-July, Delaware Bay's coastal marshes are vibrating with southbound sandpipers whose multitudes fan out amid the herons, egrets, and other resident breeders poking in the prey-rich mud that is exposed on everyfalling tide. Clapper Rails simply infest the region, but so, too, does a healthy host of biting insects.