Today’s adventure took us back to Montague, MA and Ashburnham, MA looking for various species of butterflies. The weather was MUCH better than last weekend with nice partly cloudy skies with long periods of sun and temps in the upper 60’s.
Shortly after arriving in Montague, we found the first of several Cobweb Skippers. These are a lot of fun since they have a cool pattern and are super small.
There were even enough of them this year that I could have some fun with the photos. I have always loved the face shots, so I did one of those as well.
We even got to see a mating pair of Cobweb Skippers which was nice to see the difference between male and females.
There were several other species flying there today including Juvenal’s, Horace’s and Dreamy Duskywings, Tiger Swallowtails, one Dusted Skipper, etc.
From there we headed to Ashburnham to see what we could find. This location is pretty horrible to walk and getting in and out of the location is draining. And to get there and find almost nothing is even more draining! There were a few Azures and Duskywings, but nothing much else flying. We did find one later stage caterpillar, most likely a Red-spotted Purple (as it was on cherry).
After leaving there with almost nothing, we decided to take a quick stop in Leominster to a location we like to check out and managed to get a Canadian Tiger Swallowtail at least.
Looking forward to a beautiful day at home in the yard tomorrow. Things should start to show up any day now…
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