Worth Mountain Count, May 1, 2004

Well, the needed rain changed our plans in searching for butterflies today so we ended up doing a lot of botanizing and birding in the intermittent light showers and lush greeness of the day.

Lynn Smith, Quentin Weber and I probably covered about 1/2 mile of the entry road at a leisurely pace. We also met a total of 6 turkey hunters who were trying to get one on this last day of the season. They weren't having any luck finding a gobbler in the back interior of the reserve (where we never got close to) but were like us, enjoying the day.

When the sun finally appeared during a break in the rains, we did get some Leps and some Odes here and on a brief visit around the big pond at Draper WMA, also in York County.

Leps at Worth Mountain

Pearl Crescent 4
Black Swallowtail 2
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
SpiceBush 1
Eastern Tailed Blue worn 1
Juvenals Dusky wing 2 female
Northern Cloudy Wing 2
Carolina Satyr 1
Hoary Edged Skipper 2 in parking lot before we left.
Pipevine Swallowtail 1 beautiful view of blue background on underside
Cloudless Sulphur 3
Orange Sulphur 1
Hairstreak Unidentified 1
Azure 1
American Lady 1

Blue Corporal Dragonfly
Damselflies unidentified

At Draper WMA

Least Skipper 1
Cloudless Sulphur 1
Spicebush 1
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1

Stream Cruiser Dragonfly which Lynn caught in a net for close examination
Double Ringed Pennant Dragonfly
Damsel flies unidentified

Painted Turles 4
I believe we saw 1 small Brown Water Snake swimming
and an unidentified black snake going under a log

Many day flying moths at Worth Mountain including one attractive 
Geometer which eluded our catch for identification.

Birds of note were:
Black-Thoated Blue Warbler
Yellow-Throated Chat
Prairie Warbler
Male and Female Summer Tanager
Wood Thrush
Oven Bird
Yellow-Billed Cockoo
Red Eyed Vireo
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow


SCAN will probably schedule a return trip to Worth Mountain next year. There is a lot of it to explore. There is a SCAN trip in June going to Draper WMA.

Jules Fraytet
Charlotte,NC

 


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