Sunday report, GREAT butterfly
Well I got fifty species of birds, but the best find was a beautiful butterfly, a Falcate Orangetip. Check the range map to see why this is quite a find. It was along the trail from the Beacham loop to the ball fields, right where the big sycamores open into a little meadow. Same place where the first Blue-Winged Warblers showed up today. Only new flowers I noticed were Orange Hawkweed, and White Violets. Also new were Northern Rough-wing Swallows, Green Heron, Barn Swallows (but this group must have just been passing through). That's all I can remember.
posted by JP Valentik @ 4:54 PM
2 Comments:
hi, jpat. don sent me your site today & i have enjoyed everything i've read so far! your work at Leatherwood is terrific & i think it will be fun to compare what you are seeing there with what we are seeing at Ninestone! this butterfly post caught my eye because recently I have been seeing a couple of orange tip falcate butterflies also. just saw one on this evening's walk...a male i guess from the bright orange...& one or two in the past week or so. didn't write them down on my birding list so not sure which dates. i go out twice a day with the dogs & usually try to write down all the birds i'm seeing / hearing. don't always count them, just list numerous ones as "present" on ebird. talked to joe neal today & he would like to schedule a field trip out here in may or june. he will contact you because he & don & i want to include you. don sent himself an email about printing another lord god bird bumper sticker for you.
hope you can come out birding sometime soon.
hi, jpat. don sent me your site today & i have enjoyed everything i've read so far! your work at Leatherwood is terrific & i think it will be fun to compare what you are seeing there with what we are seeing at Ninestone! this butterfly post caught my eye because recently I have been seeing a couple of orange tip falcate butterflies also. just saw one on this evening's walk...a male i guess from the bright orange...& one or two in the past week or so. didn't write them down on my birding list so not sure which dates. i go out twice a day with the dogs & usually try to write down all the birds i'm seeing / hearing. don't always count them, just list numerous ones as "present" on ebird. talked to joe neal today & he would like to schedule a field trip out here in may or june. he will contact you because he & don & i want to include you. don sent himself an email about printing another lord god bird bumper sticker for you.
hope you can come out birding sometime soon.
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