Draper Park/Milford Power Lines (6/2)
On Saturday June 2nd there was another field trip for the Broad Meadow Brook butterfly institute. This one was led by two of my good friends, Tom and Cathy Dodd. The group was pretty small (Tom, Cathy, my parents, and Martha Gach from BMB) but we had a lot of fun.
We started at Draper Park. My parents and I had explored this area a few times before and its always good for butterflies. This trip was no exception. We had some really nice butterflies including Red Spotted Admiral, Spicebush Swallowtail, and Pepper and Salt Skipper. We also found a Ringneck Snake hiding out under some sheet metal. This was only my second sighting of this species in Massachusetts so it was a great find. We also found an Eight Spotted Forrester Moth and one of the strangest black wasps that I've ever seen.
After finishing up at the park we headed over to the power lines in Milford. By this time it had gotten pretty hot but we decided to take a short hike anyhow. We adding a couple more butterfly species including Harris' Checkerspot and Spring Azure to our list. We also stumbled across a Red-tail Hawk nest one top of one of the poles. Both adults spent a lot of time trying to distract us from their chick. The little guy was still al fuzz but he was getting to be pretty big.
The only disappointment of the day was that I didn't find any Spotted Turtles. I've found them at one site along the power lines on two separate occasions. But, as hard as I looked I didn't spot them this year.
Butterflies (Draper Park/Milford Power Lines): 1/1 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, 1/0 Spicebush Swallowtail, 1/0 Cabbage White, 1/2 Clouded Sulphur, 2/0 Red Spotted Purple, 1/3 American Copper, 1/1 Eastern Tailed Blue, 0/1 Spring Azure , 12/5 Pearl Crescent, 0/3 Harris Checkerspot, 1/1 American Lady, 8/0 Little Wood Satyr, 1/2 Viceroy, 11/0 Ringlet, 2/0 Juvenal's Duskywing, 0/1 Wild Indigo Duskywing, 0/2 Duskywing species, 1/0 Northern Cloudywing, 1/1 Pepper and Salt , 1/0 Hobomok skipper, 5/4 Peck's skipper, 5/3 Dusted skipper, 1/1 Long Dash, 2/0 Tawny-edged skipper
We started at Draper Park. My parents and I had explored this area a few times before and its always good for butterflies. This trip was no exception. We had some really nice butterflies including Red Spotted Admiral, Spicebush Swallowtail, and Pepper and Salt Skipper. We also found a Ringneck Snake hiding out under some sheet metal. This was only my second sighting of this species in Massachusetts so it was a great find. We also found an Eight Spotted Forrester Moth and one of the strangest black wasps that I've ever seen.
After finishing up at the park we headed over to the power lines in Milford. By this time it had gotten pretty hot but we decided to take a short hike anyhow. We adding a couple more butterfly species including Harris' Checkerspot and Spring Azure to our list. We also stumbled across a Red-tail Hawk nest one top of one of the poles. Both adults spent a lot of time trying to distract us from their chick. The little guy was still al fuzz but he was getting to be pretty big.
The only disappointment of the day was that I didn't find any Spotted Turtles. I've found them at one site along the power lines on two separate occasions. But, as hard as I looked I didn't spot them this year.
Butterflies (Draper Park/Milford Power Lines): 1/1 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, 1/0 Spicebush Swallowtail, 1/0 Cabbage White, 1/2 Clouded Sulphur, 2/0 Red Spotted Purple, 1/3 American Copper, 1/1 Eastern Tailed Blue, 0/1 Spring Azure , 12/5 Pearl Crescent, 0/3 Harris Checkerspot, 1/1 American Lady, 8/0 Little Wood Satyr, 1/2 Viceroy, 11/0 Ringlet, 2/0 Juvenal's Duskywing, 0/1 Wild Indigo Duskywing, 0/2 Duskywing species, 1/0 Northern Cloudywing, 1/1 Pepper and Salt , 1/0 Hobomok skipper, 5/4 Peck's skipper, 5/3 Dusted skipper, 1/1 Long Dash, 2/0 Tawny-edged skipper
posted by Mike @ 10:35 AM
0 comments
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home