Recent sightings

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  • Other Clear

Jack Miller

Dennisville rr
Cape May County, NJ

Brief stop around 2:00.

  • American Snout 1
  • Anglewing sp. 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1

Dolores Amesbury

My yard in CMCH
Cape May County, NJ

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

  • Anglewing sp. 1
  • Eastern Comma 1
  • Mourning Cloak 3

Eastern Comma

Jennifer Bulava

Amico Island, Delran
Burlington County, NJ

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

  • Mourning Cloak 1

Robert C. Koch

Lumberton Leas on Creek Rd. Lumberton, NJ
Burlington County, NJ

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.

  • Cabbage White 1
  • Anglewing sp. 1
  • Mourning Cloak 1

Jeanine Apgar

Old Port Republic Trail
Atlantic County, NJ

56 degrees and winds 13 mph , afternoon.

  • Mourning Cloak 1

Mourning Cloak

David L. Amadio

Riverwinds River Trail & Community center
Gloucester County, NJ

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]

  • Eastern Comma 4
  • Red Admiral 1

Red Admiral

Eastern Comma

Pat & Clay Sutton

Pine Swamp Road (Belleplain State Forest)
Cape May County, NJ

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

  • Mourning Cloak 5

Chris Herz

Glassboro WMA, Clayton
Gloucester County, NJ

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]

  • Spring Azure 2
  • Anglewing sp. 1
  • Eastern Comma 2
  • Mourning Cloak 1

Mourning Cloak

Spring Azure

Jack Miller

my yard Petersburg
Cape May County, NJ

Midday fly through.

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

  • Cabbage White 1

Scott McConnell

Whitesboro
Cape May County, NJ

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.

  • American Snout 1
  • Anglewing sp. 1
  • Eastern Comma 3

Eastern Comma

American Snout

Harrison Hepding, Jonathan Layman, Tom Reed

Coral Ave. dune crossing, Cape May Point
Cape May County, NJ

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

  • Mourning Cloak 1