On a Huntington-Oyster Bay Audubon Society sponsored Young Naturalist Field Trip to the Dwarf Pine Plains and the NYSDEC's David Sarnoff Preserve, to see the autumnal mating flight of buck moths, co-led by Stella Miller and I, we saw common yellowthroat and yellow-rumped warblers, dark-eyed juncos, and several first-year chipping sparrows, in the DPP (southeast quadrant) along with three male buck moths. In the D. Sarnoff Preserve we saw several red-breasted nuthatches, associating with black-capped chickadees, several ruby-crowned kinglets, and a lone blue-headed vireo. We also saw two male buck moth flybys. Along Route 104 across from the Preserve access point we found a female buck moth fluttering on the road shoulder. To get her out of harm's way we put her on a scrub oak, the larval host plant of buck moth. Let's hope she lays an egg mass to perpetuate the species before she perishes.
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