Recent sightings

Along the shoreline of Perch Lake. A sunny windy day.

Midday, sunny, 70s.

along 1.5 miles of the trail

74 F, calm, 10:10 - 10:59 while birding the location (probably, many butterflies and skippers were missed)

2 Monarchs

Several Spring Azures at multiple locations. Red Admirals at multiple locations. Mourning Cloak at Hay Meadow #3 horse park and marsh south of first earthen dam north of 225th Street.

12th annual Crex to the Barrens butterfly trek with 8 participants. Started on Crex, saw a single Olympia near Crex Ridge Road. Saw 3 more Olympias, two Spring Azures and three Silvery Blues at north end of Reed Lake. One Pine Elfin was on Springbrook Trail. A two-rut "road" to the east of Dry Landing Road just north of Clemens Creek on the Barrens yielded over 30 Hoary Elfins. Another ten were seen near bearberry on Gomulak Fire Lane. A few skittish Duskywing Skippers were seen at each site visited, but most refused to land for long and were hard to ID. Say fifteen undetermined Erynnis.

I saw two Monarch butterflies flying about Moely Prairie this morning while out doing restoration work!

Mixed clouds and open sky, gusty winds, by noon reaching 64 degrees. Lots of butterflies out today on a privately owned prairie remnant

What a nice afternoon with the butterflies. The Eastern tiger swallowtail was especially entertaining, flying very fast and covering lots of territory. Also enjoyable to see a red-headed woodpecker, a bird I don't see very often.

Monarch on a cherry tree!

I walked the short loop from the parking lot to the lake bluff to the kiosk. Nice warblers, too.

This was a scouting trip for the May 19th SWBA field trip. Over 50 of the azures were seen puddling along Brockway Rd. south of the ATV trail. 18 of the Eastern Pine Elfins were seen nectaring on blueberry sp. along a 50 yard section of trail.

On a dirt road through woods, near a sphagnum bog and slow-moving, shallow flowage.

The gusty wind day, blew most of the butterfly sightings away, before one could get a good photo, let alone ID them!

Also one tiger swallowtail sp.

Saw no butterflies along Stolte Road in Fish Lake SWA. Got to Crex Meadows SWA, saw FOY Olympia Marble just south of Crex Ridge Road. Got to north edge of Reed Lake, hiked in swale here, saw FOY "blue" in flight. Checked wet mud and saw six Silvery Blues at a time. Single Duskywing Skipper was nectaring at violet--Dreamy/Sleepy. Season is a week or more behind normal. Surprised to see no overwintering guys, and no Painted Ladies or Red Admirals.

4 sites inside the park and one nearby. 2 hours. 65-73 degrees F, 90% sun. 3 of the 4 sulphurs were very close to, but not in, the survey sites. All of the E. Pine Elfins were in the barrens west of Hastings Road.

Besides the butterfly also saw many spring wildflowers: White and Yellow Trout Lily, Violets, Bloodroot, Trillium, Spring Beauty, and Anemones.

I didn't see any of the arctic butterflies.

Seen while birding

3 sites along Brockway Road and two stops along Bauer Road. 61-73 degrees F, half sun. 2.5 hours. We also saw 3 unidentified elfins.

Windy, cold, mostly cloudy - all butterflies were flushed from forest floor. Beautiful spring ephemerals display.

In a large open area (reclaimed gravel pit)

2:45 p.m. sunny, 57 degrees F
Sighting of two Red Admirals making contact while flying about

Saw a Red Admiral on the south side of the beach house building.

Red Admiral was sunning itself in a spruce tree along our driveway. Mustard White was flying along road then landed near Bloodroot wildflower on side of road. Late afternoon, sunny and 50 degrees.

around 5 PM