May 2012 Sightings

one flying S to N at 7:04 pm / Red Admirals flew all day today in many places according to various reports!!!

migrating S to N

At least - I was mainly birding though! I am posting to say they were here. I was there a couple hours and everytime I looked at butterflies, they were all over! They were flying across the impoundments, but also along the dikes. Heading north and west.

in parking lot

Spicebush Swallowtail: one nectaring on Lowbush Blueberry; Azure, sp.: 2 possibly Edward's Azures; Question Mark: one flying at 6:42 pm; Painted Lady: moving S to N; Red Admiral: 87 migrating rapidly E to W, 2 migrating rapidly W to E, 1 migrating rapidly S to N and 29 hanging out; Juvenal's Duskywing: one flying at 6:34 pm; Sachem: a male

flying north, so many that it was hard not to hit them, from 4:45 to 5:30 p.m.

2 moving E to W. 1 moving S to N

probably more, all flying south to N or NW

varied from 180 to 200 per minute!!!!

one at 6:59 pm and the other at 7:01 pm

Dark form

varied from 40 to 60 per minute from 1pm to 5pm

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: flying around in the forest; Red Admiral: flying out of the woods and across the fields heading north, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. (after Cynthia's count above)

Eastern Tailed-Blue: first in yard since heavy rain on 4/22; Red Admiral: All but 2 flying rapidly south to north

migrating S to N

Black Swallowtail: flying, looked rag; Question Mark: summer form; Red Admiral: in one hour, rapidly flying south to north; Juvenal's Duskywing: male

Zabulon Skipper: in forest along trail

American Lady: 6 moving E to W in same parking lot as above 50 Red Admirals; Red Admiral: 50 of these Red Admirals moving rapidly across one parking lot during 10 minutes of total time - E to W, 1 moving W to E in downtown area and 7 moving rapidly S to N heading out of CMCH past County Zoo and on to main Trailhead of LT

Question Mark: female laying eggs on Hackberry; American Lady: Nectaring on French lilac

American Lady: nectaring on Lilac; Painted Lady: nectaring on Lilac; Red Admiral: Goshen, flying through our backyard

near 7 pm - still migrating

clouds rolling through rapidly from the NE and the temps in the forties / had a Red Admiral race by me at 6:28 am from NE to SW!!

flying in back around 3 pm

Eastern Tailed-Blue: in hiding / no flying butterflies today; except for, Red Admirals; Red Admiral: first one at 5:06 pm-shivered while getting a photo and it took off after an image was gotten / 5 flying on their own between 5:31 pm and 5:36 pm

wings folded and clinging to a large brown Seedhead / was first seen at 10 am and I went back to visit again at 4:20 pm - got face on image at second visit

flying around a back yard at 7:15 am

American Lady: moving NW from SE; Red Admiral: moving NW from SE

Red Admiral: migrating E to W - only home for 15 minutes