Sighting for September 19, 2014
Jim Egbert
PlashRd. and East Canal Gulf Shores Al
Baldwin County, AL
- Black Swallowtail 1
- Palamedes Swallowtail common
- Cloudless Sulphur common
- Little Yellow common
- Sleepy Orange 5
- Gray Hairstreak 3
- Gulf Fritillary common
- Common Buckeye common
- Viceroy 3
- Carolina Satyr 6
- Long-tailed Skipper 5
- Horace's Duskywing 1
- Common Checkered-Skipper common
- Clouded Skipper 1
- Fiery Skipper common
- Dotted Skipper 1
- Southern Broken-Dash 1
- Salt Marsh Skipper 5
- Ocola Skipper common
The migrating Gulf Fritillary have reach our coast this week; and passion vines I planted last spring are now getting some attention. Late this morning the skies cleaned after some early AM showers; I found a female hovering over the highest tendril of my purple vine.