April 2020 Sightings

Too many different looks to the azures for me to identify them.

Mid-afternoon. Sunny, warm and breezy. Good numbers of Spring (Holly) Azures where road cuts past a grove of holly trees.

[Interesting that Steve found our FOY red-banded hairstreak three times in one day. -jm]

Early afternoon visit. Sunny, warm and breezy.

[Steve has reported two more FOY's for our log: s. cloudywing and spicebush swallowtail. The swallowtail photo even comes with a bonus Juvenal's duskywing! -jm]

Juniper hairstreaks stayed high in the cedars. One landed on the ground but was quickly put to flight by a couple of falcates.

Mostly sunny, NW winds, 60 degrees. Wow! I could not believe the Duskwing numbers! All along the length of the road.

Photo of mating Polyphemus moths (holding position over night) on my neighbors' hyacinth. Male on the left.

Mostly sunny, ~55ºF, winds E 10-20mph. Butterflies noted during bird migration count. Admiral potentially arriving from the bay; Lady quickly moving east through dunes.

1050-1140; variable clouds, 61ºF, winds E 15-20mph.

Access permitted to Park Staff only.
Butterflies seen from 10:30am-12.

[That's our FOY common sootywing. Good find, JP! jc]

There was a cluster of this species fluttering together near the ground.

Spicebush could barely fly so may have just emerged.

[Sounds likely as we just had our FOY on 4/28. jc]

I didn't expect to see any butterflies with today's weather, let alone my FOY Painted Lady which was on Beach Plum.