Sighting for July 2, 2020

Renee Davis

Callicoon and Fremont Township
Sullivan County, NY

Today I took a ride around some roads that I haven’t traveled since the Breeding Bird Atlas of 2000. I was delighted to find a wet ditch with many Bronze Coppers. I counted 10 within a hundred feet. I can only imagine how many there would have been if I counted the whole road. I also found another one on another road that was unexpected.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 18
  • Cabbage White common
  • Clouded Sulphur 6
  • Orange Sulphur 4
  • Bronze Copper 11
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue 4
  • Great Spangled Fritillary 5
  • Meadow Fritillary 2
  • Pearl Crescent 4
  • Painted Lady 1
  • White Admiral 1
  • Red-spotted Purple 1
  • Northern Pearly-eye 1
  • Common Ringlet 1
  • Common Wood-Nymph 1
  • Monarch 2
  • Silver-spotted Skipper 2
  • Least Skipper 9
  • European Skipper common
  • Crossline Skipper 1
  • Dun Skipper 5

Northern Pearly-eye

Common Wood-Nymph

Meadow Fritillary

Bronze Copper

Bronze Copper