Thursday, September 8, 2016

OR ~ Butterflies at Prineville Reservoir

Common Checkered Skipper egg laying
Common Checkered Skipper
Purplish Cooper
Bernie and I decided to drive a nature trail around the lake.  It's an "unmaintained" road which means lots of holes, bumps and so forth. We were hoping for even more birds than we had seen already around the reservoir.  What we found were birds, very low water levels and an explosion of butterflies on Rabbitbrush.  The Juba Skippers are apparently a rare find.

Blue Cooper ~ life butterfly
Juba Skippers ~ life butterfly

Juba Skipper ~ life butterfly

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