Sighting for March 14, 2016

Jim Egbert

Roscoe Rd,Orange Beach;Co Rd 87 north of I10,and Perdido River WMA.
Baldwin County, AL

Mostly sunny temp in low 80s. Perdido River WMA has the largest stand of White Cedar in Alabama;but access has been mostly limited to hunter and timber companies.But this spring the area has opened two public areas on the river amoung the cedars.This has produced a very nice sighting of a Hessel’s Hairstreak at the Staplefork Landing;one of the new areas.

  • Pipevine Swallowtail 1
  • Black Swallowtail 2
  • Palamedes Swallowtail abundant
  • Cabbage White common
  • Cloudless Sulphur abundant
  • Barred Yellow 1
  • Little Yellow 1
  • Hessel's Hairstreak 1
  • Gulf Fritillary 1
  • Variegated Fritillary 1
  • Pearl Crescent 11
  • Question Mark 1
  • American Lady 1
  • Carolina Satyr 9
  • Monarch 1
  • Juvenal's Duskywing 1
  • Horace's Duskywing 6
  • Common Checkered-Skipper 1