Sighting for June 7, 2022
Ronald Hedden
Tibbits State Forest - power line cutting
Rensselaer County, NY
- Black Swallowtail 4
- Canadian Tiger Swallowtail 2
- American Copper 3
- Eastern Pine Elfin 1
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 1
- 'Summer' Spring Azure 1
- Silvery Blue 2
- Pearl Crescent abundant
- Northern Crescent common
- American Lady 3
- Red-spotted Admiral 2
- White Admiral 1
- Little Wood-Satyr common
- Common Ringlet common
- Monarch 1
- Silver-spotted Skipper 1
- Juvenal's Duskywing 2
- Wild Indigo Duskywing common
- Indian Skipper 1
- Tawny-edged Skipper 2
- Hobomok Skipper 3
Hobomok Skipper
Indian Skipper
Silvery Blue
Juvenal's Duskywing
Silver-spotted Skipper
Wild Indigo Duskywing
American Lady
Wild Indigo Duskywing
Tawny-edged Skipper
Eastern Pine Elfin
Hobomok Skipper
Eastern Tailed-Blue
American Copper
Common Ringlet
American Copper
Common Ringlet
This power line cutting provides a strip of xeric habitat in the middle of an otherwise moist eastern hardwood forest. Besides butterflies, nesting Prairie Warblers were in the area today. Parking access is from a well-concealed dirt road just past the Hoosac School on Pine Valley Rd. The access road has deep ruts and is not suitable for parking after rain.