June 15, 2025 – Middleboro, MA

We were finally able to visit the Nemasket River Village Archaeological Preserve together! It is a place I wrote about a couple weeks ago when I scouted it one afternoon. The weekends have been so terrible this spring that we haven’t had a lot of adventures together, so it was nice to finally be at it again.

The day turned out to be quite nice weather-wise. I am not quite sure of the temperature, but it was comfortable, upper 60’s probably and mostly sunny.

The first time I scouted the area, I found a lot of Long Dash skippers, so I expected to see a bunch again today. There were less than I had expected, but the skipper activity was quite high along all of the trails with a few surprises thrown in.

We saw Cabbage Whites, Peck’s Skippers, Long Dash Skippers, European Skippers, Least Skippers, Zabulon Skippers, a few Red-banded Hairstreaks and a Monarch! We also were able to see a couple Red Admiral caterpillars on False Nettle.

I also spotted a Garter Snake (photo above) which was perched up in the high grasses. I’m still not sure how it was keeping itself up there.

The place is a bit of a gem that seems to be lightly visited, so it will most certainly be a place we check out throughout the season.