March 2022 Sightings

on what they currently call the NW Loop… a west facing rocky muddy steep trail. About 50F but most likely 10 degrees warmer on surfaces in the afternoon sun. Saw this at 2:55 pm. No picture- in fact, no camera.
[moderator]: First report.

11:30. Mid fifties, light breeze. Fluttering around in sunny alcove between two houses. Great to see a butterfly again!

Sighting occurred walking along a dirt road, late afternoon, 50-degree temperature, not too windy.

Eastern Comma - first yard butterfly of 2022 for me. Found basking on a gravel driveway. About 65 degrees.

16:00; 66 F degrees; sunny.

Saw a Cabbage White just before noon in our yard and a Mourning Cloak later in the afternoon at Lake Iliff on this warm, sunny and calm day.

Sunny, 70 degrees, breeze out of S. Looked out of window and saw a Cabbage White flying near my bare Dogwood. Quickly flew off to the S. only plants in bloom are Daffodils.

The spring day we've all been waiting for - sunny and 73º. Two of our Sugar Maples had sap flows courtesy of a wintering Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. In addition to the butterflies (and numerous green bottle flies), a Downy Woodpecker and a Yellow-rumped Warbler were seen sampling the sap.

Initially foggy and a bit chilly, then clearing and warming into the 70’s. Many wood frogs and spring peepers calling. One flyby anglewing sp. probably a comma.

Sunny, 65 degrees. Also saw 5 hibernaculum on cherry tree - either Red-spotted Purple or Viceroy.

On a sunny afternoon over 70 degrees saw an Eastern Comma by the Duck Pond and a Mourning Cloak near Little Swartzwood Lake.

Unseasonably warm and partially sunny this afternoon.
The Mourning Cloak from yesterday was joined by a second cloak and an Eastern Comma at sap flowing from holes drilled by a juvenile sapsucker. The activity yesterday was at holes drilled by an adult male sapsucker.

1pm. Sunny, in the seventies. One Mourning Cloak flyby and three singing Pine Warblers in a small woodlot.

First butterfly of the year for me. Around 11:30 A.M. sunny and warm.

More butterflies (2) than migrating hawks(0), OUCH!

It's been a few years since I have had a first of season yard sighting in the month of March.

10:30. Flyby

Another flyby