Mount Mitchell Count, August 10, 2003
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Folks, Cathy King and Beth Brinson and I explored Craggy Gardens from about 10 - 11 AM on Sunday, it looked great for Green Comma where we explored there although nothing exciting showed up there as it was still too chilly for many butterflies. We then headed to Mount Mitchell State Park, on the way we encountered very dense fog and some rain. We walked a part of the trail at the ranger station leaving melon rinds at four places along the trail(we later retrieved the melon rinds). We found 2 Painted Ladies and might have had a anglewing species. It flew up and over into the trees and was not relocated, this could have been a Green Comma but we'll never know. Along our walk there the birding was real good with sightings of a Rose-breasted Grosbeak, a Black-throated Green, a male and female Canadian Warbler, two immature Chestnut-sided Warblers and 2 Pine Siskins Next we drove up to the top parking lot and were surrounded by Cedar Waxwings, then it rained heavily for about 30 minutes. Later at this spot we found several fledgling Juncos, one that was on the stone steps that the mother bird was doing her best to get the baby to safety. Surprisingly butterflies near the top were more plentiful than the lower trail. Here's the list for the park up until about 4pm when the sky was about to unload a heavy downpour. 2 Pipevine Swallowtail 2 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 Swallowtail spp. 1 Cabbage White 1 Clouded Sulphur 2 Orange Sulphur 10 Eastern Tailed Blue 1 Pearl Crescent 3 Painted Lady 1 Anglewing spp. 1 Common Buckeye 2 Monarch 2 Silver-spotted Skipper Randy Emmitt Rougemount, NC www.rlephoto.com http://public.fotki.com/rlephoto/ |
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