| Field Trip
Report: Douglas Hart Nature Center May 8, 2004 Thirteen GPBC members
built butterfly feeders (complements of DHNC - thanks!!) and then hiked on
the grounds of the nature center looking for butterflies. It was a
great day for butterflying but not so great a day, as it turned out, for
seeing butterflies. We did see cabbage white, orange sulfur, pearl
crescent, silver spotted skipper (see above), and an anglewing (either an
eastern comma or question mark). All were a bit skittish, as spring
butterflies tend to be. The silver spotted skippers put on a nice show
of their territoriality, rapidly chasing each other around an opening in
the forest. On the non-butterfly list we got good looks at an immature
male white-tail dragonfly, a black saddleback dragonfly (see below)
and a young great horned owl who was being harassed by a blue jay (they're
blurry in the picture but you can see the jay over the owl's shoulder).
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