Dauphainais Park: Grafton, MA (6/10)

Sunday we were off to Dauphainais Park for a Massachusetts Butterfly Club field trip led by my Mom's friend, Dolores Price. I went alone to the park a bit early hoping to do some birding. But, it was actually VERY quiet and I didn't turn up many birds at all.

So, after a while of searching I headed back to the parking lot to meet the rest of the group. The butterfly trip was very nice and we found a total of 31 species. But, my favorite was actually a moth that gave me ample time to take its photograph.

I didn't stay for the entire trip since I needed to get back to meet my friends Kate and Eric back in Auburn. But, I've posted the trip totals anyhow.

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Butterflies: 2 Black Swallowtail, 3 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail , 2 Cabbage White , 2 Clouded Sulphur , 2 Orange Sulphur, 5 American Copper , 1 Eastern Tailed-Blue , 1 Spring Azure (violacea), 66 Pearl Crescent , 3 Red Admiral , 3 American Lady, 1 Painted Lady, 5 Viceroy , 2 Red-spotted Admiral, 30 Common Ringlet , 85 Little Wood Satyr , 1 Common Wood Nymph , 1 Hoary Edge, 8 Silver-spotted Skipper, 3 Dreamy Duskywing , 21 Northern Cloudywing, 1 Juvenal's Duskywing , 6 Common Sootywing , 5 Least Skipper , 20 European Skipper, 22 Peck’s Skipper , 1 Tawny-edged Skipper , 1 Long Dash, 14 Hobomok Skipper , 3 Dusted Skipper, 1 Pepper and Salt Skipper

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Birds: Blue-wing Warbler, Gray Catbird, Prairie Warbler, Red-winged Blackbird, American Robin, American Goldfinch, Eastern Phoebe, Northern Flicker, Song Sparrow, American Crow, Eastern Towhee, Blue Jay