September 2011 Sightings

Fiery Skipper: 4 females

Black Swallowtail: a male and 2 females / inventory done between 10:30 am and 12:30 pm; Horace's Duskywing: a female; Salt Marsh Skipper: quite worn

flying south past Braca Restaurant at 6:21 pm

Black Swallowtail: a male and a female; Red-banded Hairstreak: This inventory was late in the afternoon.; Pearl Crescent: most nectaring on Mistflower; Common Buckeye: a few nectaring on Ageratum

Sachem: a fresh and bright male

Fiery Skipper: 4 females

saw them flying over the water in the sound

Sulphur sp.: white form

Fiery Skipper: 3 females

Silver-spotted Skipper: worn one on phlox

'Summer' Spring Azure: very faded

Orange Sulphur: one a 'yellow form' female

Fiery Skipper: 4 females

Silver-spotted Skipper: one fairly fresh; Fiery Skipper: 2 females

Sachem: 2 females

Black Swallowtail: a male; Monarch: Will they come this weekend?; Common Checkered-Skipper: both females; Fiery Skipper: 2 female

Fiery Skipper: a male

one was caught by an Eastern Phoebe

Common Checkered-Skipper: a feamle; Fiery Skipper: one a female

Cabbage White: a female and a male nectaring on a Goldenrod sp. plant; Common Buckeye: 2 nectaring on Sedum; Salt Marsh Skipper: nectaring on Sedum

American Lady: nectaring on Aster Flowers; Common Buckeye: 19 of these were at the Sea Watch (most travelling from the bay side to the ocean); Monarch: all at the Sea Watch; Fiery Skipper: 2 females