Sighting for September 14, 2023
Jack McDonough
Areas around Cape May Point
Cape May County, NJ
- Black Swallowtail 8
- Cabbage White 2
- Clouded Sulphur 5
- Orange Sulphur 3
- Cloudless Sulphur 45
- Sleepy Orange 1
- Gray Hairstreak 10
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 2
- 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
- Variegated Fritillary 1
- American Lady 14
- Painted Lady 3
- Red Admiral 2
- Common Buckeye 18
- Red-spotted Purple 2
- Viceroy 3
- Emperor sp. 1
- Monarch 45
- Duskywing sp. 1
- Silver-spotted Skipper 2
- Ocola Skipper 16
- Swarthy Skipper 1
- Least Skipper 1
- Fiery Skipper 24
- Tawny-edged Skipper 1
- Sachem 300
Sunny, N winds around 9mph. A disappointing day. A duskywing with white hindwing edging passed through a garden along Harvard Ave and was chased away by a pair of Sachem before I could grab my camera. With a good initial look through the binoculars, it appeared to be a Funereal Duskywing. I spent many hours looking for it afterwards in the surrounding gardens, but on a day with the first real northerly winds of the fall, things were busy moving. I have the small hope that perhaps I’ll see it again in the morning. If identified correctly, they are dominantly a southern species on the east coast, but have shown up during the fall in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and other nearby places (including in recent years)
[Good luck, Jack! By the numbers and good finds on this list, I am not sure everyone would call this a disappointing day ;-) jc]