Identificaciones de lindacooper298

With Don Fraser. Surprisingly, my first visit to this magnificent site (54,873 acres, mostly purchased from a single landowner, J.T. Goethe, in 1992.

Note: I need to split out these records into several specific sites that we visited, but ... not tonight.

With Valeri Ponzo; a successful search for our lifer Statira Sulphurs. We also found our own lifer Exposed Bird Dropping Moths!

We arrived at 1129 and left at 1257.

The weather at the start was sunny and 87 degrees ("feels like" 96) with a light breeze.

With Don Fraser and Linda Cooper; my first "real" skipper trip. Man, it was rough out there; the weather was sunny and humid with calm winds, 93 degrees but "feels like" 103. Birders know to get out of the sun after about 0930, but butterfliers seek the sun at this time and spend the next few hours in the sun. But it was fun, with several lifers -- even though I still can't identify 90% of what I'm looking at, non-birdwise.

I ended up photographing 33 skippers, 8 swallowtails, 6 dusky wings/cloudy wings, 6 wasps, 4 grasshoppers, 3 hairstreaks, 2 lynx spiders, and several other insects.

Almost everything was nectaring on Rattlesnake Master a crazy English name for a plant!, which is growing abundant along the road (until the mowers move in).

My camera -- which impressed me today -- is a Panasonic Lumix FZ80 digital bridge camera (up to 60x zoom).

Many IDs were suggested by iNat's AI.

With Don Fraser and Linda Cooper; my first "real" skipper trip. Man, it was rough out there; the weather was sunny and humid with calm winds, 93 degrees but "feels like" 103. Birders know to get out of the sun after about 0930, but butterfliers seek the sun at this time and spend the next few hours in the sun. But it was fun, with several lifers -- even though I still can't identify 90% of what I'm looking at, non-birdwise.

I ended up photographing 33 skippers, 8 swallowtails, 6 dusky wings/cloudy wings, 6 wasps, 4 grasshoppers, 3 hairstreaks, 2 lynx spiders, and several other insects.

Almost everything was nectaring on Rattlesnake Master a crazy English name for a plant!, which is growing abundant along the road (until the mowers move in).

My camera -- which impressed me today -- is a Panasonic Lumix FZ80 digital bridge camera (up to 60x zoom).

Many IDs were suggested by iNat's AI.