Sighting for August 19, 2017
David L. Amadio
Eastern Neck NWR
Kent County, MD
- Zebra Swallowtail 14
- Black Swallowtail 3
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 9
- Spicebush Swallowtail 12
- Cabbage White 10
- Clouded Sulphur 2
- Orange Sulphur 10
- Cloudless Sulphur 17
- Sleepy Orange 1
- Gray Hairstreak 6
- Red-banded Hairstreak 3
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 11
- 'Summer' Spring Azure 14
- American Snout 4
- Variegated Fritillary 4
- Pearl Crescent 20
- Question Mark 6
- Eastern Comma 2
- American Lady 1
- Painted Lady 3
- Red Admiral 7
- Common Buckeye 9
- Red-spotted Purple 9
- Viceroy 2
- Hackberry Emperor 1
- Tawny Emperor 2
- Appalachian Brown 4
- Common Wood-Nymph 3
- Monarch 14
- Silver-spotted Skipper 12
- Horace's Duskywing 1
- Common Checkered-Skipper 2
- Swarthy Skipper 1
- Least Skipper 2
- Peck's Skipper 2
- Sachem 13
- Zabulon Skipper 7
- Broad-winged Skipper 1
- Dun Skipper 1
Tawny Emperor
Cloudless Sulphur
Painted Lady
Sleepy Orange
Appalachian Brown
Gray Hairstreak
Zebra Swallowtail
Observations made from 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Mid to high 80’s Mostly sunny. Found some good activity at a sap hole on a small Willow tree. Competing for the sap were several Question Marks, several Red Admirals and two Tawny Emperors. I have included a very poor flight image of a Sleepy Orange. This is only the 2nd time that I have encountered one here.