Recent sightings

Eastern Tiger Swllowtail was nectaring on barberry.

74°F, sunny, breeze, 3:15-4:45pm
One orangetip was working the prevalent roadside dandelions.

74°F, sunny, 2pm-3pm
Female orangetip nectaring on cress and rejecting advances of male.

Sunny, wind picked up mid-day. 63-72°F, 10:30am -12:45am

FOY Eastern Tiger Swallowtail for home garden at 8:30 AM.

Sunny, warm (c. 70°), and rather windy. The orangetips were all flying so the count is a guesstimate of the number of different individuals.

Seen along Ridge. A short distance from where the Black Swallowtail was last week.

11:00-12:00, sun and clouds, about 60 degrees. Pretty slow! There is an Osprey nest on the cell tower beyond the southern end of the lake.

Exploring the state of previously good butterfly sites within the park , much of the undergrowth has been decimated by deer browsing, trails on southern side of park heavily used by trail bikers 59°F, cloudy

Azures appeared to be females and where found on American Holly.

near this location, this park is in 3 different counties, fyi
10:30-12, flowers blooming but no butterfly variety

Partly to mostly Cloudy temp 60s

11:00-12:00, mostly cloudy, high 50s. A couple of brief peeks of sun. Lots of Trailing Arbutus in bloom - it sat still but the Brown Elfin didn't.

11:30 to 12:30. Mostly cloudy. Cool & breezy.

Male Black Swallowtail found on top of ridge while birding 12 noon.
Cabbage Whites throughout the park.

10:15-11:00, sunny, about 60º.

I arrived around 3:30 pm on a sunny, warm (70º afternoon). No sooner had I stepped out of the car than a Falcate orangetip butterfly did a fly-by. There were no significant nectar sources, so all sightings were of moving insects, apart from a mating pair of Cabbage whites that briefly landed before flying off before I could get a photo.

2:15-4:30. Sunny, in the low seventies. Lots and lots of Cabbage Whites and that was it.

1:30-3:15, sunny, low 60s. Southern half of the Summit Trail. Not a lot of activity considering the beautiful day. 2 male orangetips, 1 unknown. Great display of Dutchman’s Breeches, nice Cutleaf Toothwort, Early Saxifrage.

nothing new- cherry trees in bloom, spring ephemerals (blood root, cut tooth, trout lilies)