Pat Sutton lives near Cape May, New Jersey, the world renowned migratory crossroads that is famous for its hawk, owl, songbird, shorebird, and Monarch butterfly migration. She has keenly studied the natural world for over 30 years.
Pat and her husband Clay’s landmark book, Birds and Birding at Cape May, is the in-depth result of their efforts over many years documenting and protecting the migration and the hometown that they so love.
Pat and Clay Sutton together have co-authored How to Spot Butterflies, How to Spot Hawks & Eagles, and How to Spot an Owl.
Pat has been a working naturalist since 1977, first for the Cape May Point State Park and then for 21 years with New Jersey Audubon’s Cape May Bird Observatory, where she was the Naturalist and Program Director. Pat has a Masters Degree from Rowan University in Environmental Education and an undergraduate degree in Literature from the State University of New York at Oneonta.
Today, Pat is a free-lance writer, photographer, naturalist, educator, lecturer, tour leader, and wildlife garden consultant. Sutton’s own wildlife garden is a teaching garden featured in many programs and workshops she teaches and included on many tours, including tours of private wildlife gardens that she has led for 20 years.
Pat is a founding Board Member of the North American Butterfly Association. She coauthored, with David Wright, the Cape May Bird Observatory’s “Cape May County Butterfly Checklist” and the Cape May County butterfly site guide in Jeffrey Glassberg’s Butterflies Through Binoculars.
She is a passionate advocate and wildlife gardener for (and photographer of) butterflies, moths, birds, and other critters. Articles and photography by Pat & Clay have appeared in New Jersey Audubon, Peregrine Observer, New Jersey Outdoors, Sanctuary, American Butterflies, Wild Bird, Bird Watcher’s Digest, Birder’s World, Birding, Living Bird, Defenders, and others. Check out Pat’s Facebook page.
