THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 1979

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CATE MW BIRD OBSERVATORY

By CM BO Ntturalist Director Pete Dunne There was nothing about October 11, 1978 that would have marked it for anything special. The winds were light and variable, the temperatures moderate, and the hawk flight at Cape May Point, comfortably paced. Eleven o’clock had seen the passage of 400 or so birds of prey of eleven species at tMT hawk watch. Conversation was centering around cabbages and kings and walkie-talkies that pick inopportune times to become truculent: How inopportune we had yet to leam. Out in the east banding station, the hawk banding cfew was in the death grip in a ho-hum falcon flight. Mornings are commonly slow at the east station, a condition .which gives rise to a fair amount of head turning. Somebody’s head Anally turned sufficiently to espic the cedar that stands to the rear of the station. Perched upon said cedar was a bonaflde, card carrying, died-in-the-wool Fork-tailed Flycatcher. Needless to say, the discovery was viewed with surprise bordering on shock. The tropical Tyrannidae perched for 45 minutes while enough Him got burned to put'Kodak ahead 5 points on the Big Board. Frantic attempts were made to contact the hawk watch to spread the word but to no avail. These attempts failed for reasons which will be understandable to anyone who has ever pondered the woder and mystery of “the sound of one hand clapping.” They could send all right, we couldn’t receive. The Fork-tailed Flycatcher is a widespread bird of Central and South America. The tail, from which the bird derives its name is graced with two outermost retrices that sometimes extend a full foot behind the rest of the

bird.

An obvious question to ask might be: “So what is a bird that belongs in South America doing in South Cape May?”. The answer can be found in the bird’s scientific family, “Tyrannidae.” Some readers of the Herald mightTemembcr that the Western Kingbiids that appeared in Stone Harbor also belonged ; to this family. The tyrant flycatchers are famous wanderers and they occasionally appear in places that are well outside their normal range. Cape May has recorded several other AVALON BRIDGfc SCORE Ben Jones, 5190; Steve

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extra territorial faemWrs of this clan including a close cousin to the Fork-tailed, the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. Any placp that secs the passage of 50,000 hawks per annum as Cape May does, is an awfully rough neighborhood for bids that average smaller than a crow, don’t wear 'flak jackets and like to perch in the tops of cedar trees. Particularly birds that have no business being there. When last observed, the wayward flycatcher was seen with a Merlin hot on his long forked tail, going flat out on a compass heading that would eventually take him to ^Reykjavik, Iceland. Despite the score of birders (including not a few from the hawk watch) who converged on the area on subsequent days, the bird was never seen again.

Who’s Who Dr. Joseph Michael Wiesenbaugh, Jr. of Hagerstown, Md., son of Mrs.. Shirley Wiesenbaugh of Avalon has been selected for the 1979 edition of Who’s Who in the East. He also received a 1978-79 Notable American Award. His award was for recognition of past achievements and outstanding service to community'arid state presented by the American Biographical Institute. He is a graduate- of the Univ. of Maryland Dental School, Univ. of Pacific in oral suergery, and served in the U.S. Air Force. DESSERT - CARD PARTY The Stone Harbor-Avalon branch of the Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital Auxiliary will host a dessert-card party Thursday, Feb. 8th at 1 P.M. in the Avalon Room, Borough Hall, 32nd and Dune Drive, Avalon, according to Mrs. Rachel Sloan, president. Members should bring playing cards and they are welcome to bring guests.

Winners in/The Avalon Cub Scouts Pack 70 Pinewood Derby, from left, fronfrow: Matt Sellers, Bill Romberger, Jeff Snyder and Ed Gorski pose with the Rev. Robert Scott, Jr. Pastor of the First Methodist Church, Scout Jeff Wilson, Mrs: H. WUson, Den Mother and Robert Sellers, Cubmaster. . (Photo by A1 Westoff)

DEMOCRAT CLUB OF VILLAS A Social will be held at the Democrat Club on Bayshore Rd. & Washington Ave. Villas, Tues. Feb. 6th at 8 P.M. Donation is $1.00. Refreshments served.

LADIES AUXILIARY SOCIAL NIGHT The Ladies Auxiliary of the Lower Township Rescue Squad will hold a social nite on Monday, Feb. 5th, at the Squad Building, Main A^Georgia Avcs., Villas at 8 P.M.

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