Pennsville, NJ ~ Visitors to Jenny's Yard

 So proud of the work Jenny's done on building gardens in her yard. It takes time and patience when you aren't feeling your best. I visited this week when I saw 15 species of butterflies along with Snowberry Clearwing and a few hummingbird's. There could have been more species of skippers but there were so many skippers to shift through and ID. Her hard work is showing! Jenny has many flowers & host plants showing if you build it they will come!!

Lots of pollen on this Monarch!

Variegated Fritillary

Eastern-tailed Blue

Common Buckeye

Least

Snowberry Clearwing

Peck's

Fiery

Clouded Sulphur

Gray Hairstreak

 

Wolf's Hollow County Park - Butterflies & Birds

I decided to go over to Wolf's Hollow to see how the butterflies were coming along.  I was hoping for a fair number of species but only found 2 species - Peck's & Least.  I did see 8 species of birds but one species was about 20 Cedar Waxwings feeding on  Serviceberries.  So much fun to watch! I also spotted a female Ruby-throated Hummingbird by a Tulip Poplar.

Peck's

Peck's

Least

 

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Cedar Waxwing

Cedar Waxwing

Cedar Waxwing

Chester County, PA ~ Wolf's Hollow County Park

Another good visit to Wolf's Hollow Chester County Park.  Much of the nectar is drying up and dying back at this point including the Joe Pye Weed and the fields of red clover so there were not as many butterflies flying as my last visit on 8/5/22.  Last time, I estimated several hundred Eastern Tiger Swallowtails flying whereas today there were probably around 75-100 seen.  That's still an amazing number of them to me. It's someplace I'd like to visit weekly next year as there is a potential for so many species here.  I haven't walked any of the woods area where there could be species seen also. I did see my first Fiery Skipper of the season here.  Sure wish it had been in my yard but hopefully, one will come visiting. I also saw Summer Azure, Common Buckeye, Variegated Fritillary, Cabbage White, Clouded Skipper, Black Swallowtail and Horace's Duskywing for a 21 species day. Plus the 4 to 6 Snowberry Clearwing Hummingbird moths I saw on the verbena.  Again today, I only walked about 1/4 of the trail around the meadow. 

Large stand of verbena bonariensis saw many skippers, hummingbird moths and butterflies nectaring on it.  Thinking that this might be great for my yard as I tend to place mine between other plantings.

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Fiery Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Little Glassywing

Least Skipper

Meadow Fritillary

Monarch Caterpillar

Orange Sulphur

Pearl Crescent

Peck's Skipper

Peck's Skipper

Sachem Skippers

Silver-spotted Skipper

Orange Sulphur

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

unknown Skippers

Zabulon Skipper - female

Zabulon Skipper - male