February 2022 Sightings

A test of our system. Not a real find!

Both flew away before I could get a good enough look for an identification.

[Congrats Brian for our first reports of 2022. -jm]

A beautiful warm and sunny February day. Butterflies were a little more cooperative today.

Spotted while removing invasives in our wooded lot.

Sun broke through about 1pm and quickly reached 67 degrees.

Cloak was a busy flyer and not giving me a chance to catch up, nor landing for a photo op.

45 degrees. Warming up on a sunny log.

60 degrees and overcast, 15 mph SW winds. Mourning Cloak was flying through back yard this morning, being blown around by wind gusts.

At work today. The Snouts were in a small opening where I have been cutting out the Olive and invasive vines. I could only manage one picture from way out before they disappeared.

[Nice! One of two reports today of our first snouts of 2022. Still more evidence that they over-winter as adults in South Jersey. jc]

68 degrees at 2 pm when we saw these butterflies. NO photos. Flushed the Mourning Cloak (before seeing) and it flew away, not to be found again for a photo. Am. Snout perched for its photo, but Clay was camera-less and Pat (with the camera) was deep in the woods.

[This report makes three today for snout. Their presence overwintering as adults in South Jersey was once something we wondered about. Over the last several years our observers have proven they do so. jc]

Warm and sunny February day. First butterfly of the year for me! It flew by so fast there was no chance for a photo.

[Nice! Our northernmost report in 2022 so far – and the first for ATL. jc]

Mid-afternoon, 70 degrees.

[Nice! Our first snout of 2022. jc]

Sunny but only 45 degrees noontime Mourning Cloak. First butterfly of the season for GP. Yay.

[Cool, in both senses of the word! And our first report in 2022 from BUR. jc]