Butterfly sightings for March 2015
| Mar 9 2015 |
Mary Stephan
Location: Wauwatosa near Timmerman airport
Eastern Comma |
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| Mar 11 2015 |
Armund Bartz
Location: Berg Prairie State Natural Area
1 eastern comma while putting in firebreaks before a prescribed burn. We ended up leaving a nice patch of refugia within our burn unit!! |
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| Mar 11 2015 |
Erik Thomsen
Location: Kickapoo River Valley northeast of Viroqua
Eastern Comma 
Eastern Comma |
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| Mar 13 2015 |
Dan Sonnenberg
Location: Our woods near the marsh
70 degrees and sunny!!!! Took Doreen back to see them spiraling up into the trees and coming back to land near us again. |
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| Mar 13 2015 |
Mike Reese
Location: Ball Rd., south side of Sandhill Wildlife Area
63 degrees and sunny. |
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| Mar 14 2015 |
Jon Rigden
Location: Town Portland near Eureka Maple Woods SNA
Compton Tortoiseshell seen inside cabin, photographed and released. 
Compton Tortoiseshell |
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| Mar 14 2015 |
Ann Thering and Dave Eide
Location: Spring Green Preserve
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| Mar 14 2015 |
Joan Vennie
Location: Black Hawk Ridge Lower Wisconsin Riverway
Startled a Mourning Cloak on a protected portion of the hiking trail. Unfortunately only got a poor pik on my cell phone.. Saw another orange butterfly in flight but not clear enough to ID. |
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| Mar 20 2015 |
Sylvia Edlebeck
Location: Stricker's Pond, Middleton
Hooray! First butterflies seen this year. 
Eastern Comma 
Eastern Comma |
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| Mar 20 2015 |
Ann Thering
Location: Pheasant Branch Conservancy
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| Mar 20 2015 |
Matt Flower
Location: Urban Ecology Center - Riverside Park, Milwaukee, WI
Down in the valley by the large Hackberry 
Mourning Cloak |
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| Mar 31 2015 |
Joan Rickert
Location: back yard
My first butterfly-Yea! 54 degrees and mostly sunny. |
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| Mar 31 2015 |
Alex Harmon
Location: Belmont Tower
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| Mar 31 2015 |
Dan Sonnenberg
Location: Our woods along the marsh
60 degrees and mostly sunny. |
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| Mar 31 2015 |
Aaron Carlson
Location: Dunnville SWA - Larrabee Rd.
5:30 pm, 62F. 
Mourning Cloak |
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| Mar 31 2015 |
Joan Vennie
Location: Black Hawk Ridge, Lower Wisconsin Riverway
61 degrees. Eastern Commas sunning on the dry leaves. 
Eastern Comma |
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| Mar 31 2015 |
K. Java
Location: Crex Meadows SWA
62 degrees at 5 PM and saw the FOY butterfly on East Refuge Rd. |
An Eastern Comma was found moving slightly on a snowbank. It was a sunny 50 degrees.