Recent sightings

Brief stop around 2:00.

Sunny, upper 50’s. One of the Mourning Cloaks was favoring Red Maple blossoms.

1 Mourning Cloak in flight on blue trail around noon. Sunny and near 60 degrees.

First butterflies seen at Lumberton Leas this year. Cabbage White on my neighbor's lawn, Mourning Cloak (in flight) and Anglewing sp. (in leaf litter) on woodland trails.

56 degrees and winds 13 mph , afternoon.

Obs. made from 12:15 to 1 p.m., 60 degrees and filtered sun. Only a couple of flowering trees here but they were enough to attract many bees and several butterflies. Photographed high in the trees.

[Our first red admiral of 2023 – and 7th species for the year. Good find, Dave. jc]

52 degrees. Flushed from the road. 2 were chasing each other high overhead.

54 degrees to start at 1 pm.–warmed to 58 degrees. Carpenter entrance to nowhere road. 2nd Azure had dark margin.

[Our first bf report from GLO in 2023. Good to see! jc]

Midday fly through.

[Our first cabbage white of 2023 – and 6th species for the year. Good find, jm! jc]

Clear, low 50s, little breeze. 600m walk through woods, ~1 hr. in late afternoon. A comparison of one of the commas (attached) with the one I posted on 3/6 from the same location indicates it is the same individual. Today it fluttered up/chased a nearby snout several times.

Mourning Cloak flying around dunes at 11:05am. Sunny, 41ºF, wind NNW 10-15mph.