Thursday. August 30,1979

The Herald And The Lantern

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Editor’s Note: (Due to popular response, this week's Seashore Encounters article is another by Kathy Goddard repeated from last sum-

mer.)

This summer is quickly coming to a close. The beginning of the fall will bring the closing of the many shops and amusement piers. The summer visitors will return to their schools and jobs. The seashore itself changes with the seasons. The marshes are altered with the cooler weather, although not as brilliantly as the fall foliage of the forest. The marsh grasses turn to a copper and gold. When they fall they push each other over in a domino effect and fall, cowlicks going in a million directions. The water in the bays and creeks becomes clear and icy cold. It glistens in the afternoon sun, and somehow it seems to sparkle more in fall than in the summer. The crisp fall wind whistles through the marsh, the plumes of the reeds which grow above the high tide mark wave back and forth, spreading the seeds which will grow in the spring. The grasses are replaced by the algae as the primary sources of food in the fall and the winter. Microscopic planktonic algae, called diadoms, and the seaweeds carry the march animals, birds and fish through the winter when the grasses have died back. They are

fed upon by the smails and young animals which do

not hibernate.

Hie algae also produces the oxygen needed in the marshes in the winter. Large numbers of brown sand shrimp and

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shrimp called mysids move into the marshes from the ocean in the fall and become an invaluable source of food for fish. Cods, hakes, and winter flounder come from the ocean to winter in the bays. Many animals hibernate in the marshes. The diamond back turtle buries deep in the black marsh reeds. Minnows, fiddler crabs and blue crabs also reduce their activity and bury in the mud for all or part of the winter months. Buffleheads, soetters, merganzers, scup and black ducks winter in local marshes. These ducks which dive for their food eat small fish and invertebrates while the brant ducks feed on sea lettuce and other vegetable material. The mallards spend the cold months here too. Birds of prey such as marsh hawks and the shore birds pass through; migrating south for tie

^inter.

Ice is the winter is the worst enemy of the salt marsh. It makes it difficult , for light to reach the algae, i* The cold water kills the animals hibernating under the ice; ice shears the dormant grasses off at the roots and ducks cannot find holes in the ice to seek food. After the harsh winter spring comes as the marsh grasses begin to sprout again and the hibernators come back to life. The herrings, weakfish, flounder and bluefish too return to the estuaries in the spring. The migrating birds pass through again and laughing gulls and egrets return from the south. Baby Diamond Back terrapins hatch out of eggs laid the previous summer. Many animals and birds

mate in the firing.

The horseshoe crabs ;plow up on the beaches by the hundreds to mate. Fluffy yellow baby mallards form little armadas behind their mothers. The mother rail leads her black chicks arotfhd the marsh poking

for food in the grasses.

In the very late summer warm water allows tropical fish to survive in our marshes for a time. They ride on currents from the south. Occasionally, fishermen catch them with a net or fishipg pole. As the summer draws to a close the cycle begins again. The marsh is bom, dies and J springs to life again. J Any questions requests for information

Jersey Devil At Library COURT HOUSE-There is evidence that the Jersey Devil has visited the Cape May County Library and its branches many times this summer. His misdeeds now include leaving hoofprints all over the library walls and ceiling. It seems that he has been aided^and abetted in this mischief by 619 kids who were members of the Jersey Devil Summer Reading Club. There is a hoofprint in the library for every one of the 3,800 books that were read by the club members. Many avid readers joined the club. Five kids read over 50 books each and many read

oVer 20 books.

At the party that the library threw for the Jersey Devil and his fellow club members, the kids and their parents saw films, had refreshments and were masterfully entertained by the Hoffnagel Clown Family and Family Band.

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