Sighting for June 20, 2013

John Lampkin

Mt. Ivy Park
Rockland County, NY

With Jane Lampkin
78 and sunny
Some years, European Skippers are irruptive in Rockland meadows. We stopped counting after quickly reaching 100.

  • Spicebush Swallowtail 1
  • Cabbage White 35
  • Clouded Sulphur 2
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • Red-banded Hairstreak 1
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 5
  • 'Summer' Spring Azure 7
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Little Wood-Satyr 1
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 10
  • European Skipper 100+
  • Peck's Skipper 3
  • Northern Broken-Dash 1
  • Zabulon Skipper 3
  • Dun Skipper 2