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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