Nature at Nottingham County Park

Peck's

Silver-spotted 

Peck's

Clouded Sulphur

Pearl Crescent

Clouded Sulphur

 

Nottingham County Park ~ Butterflies'

 I drove to I drove to Nottingham County Park this afternoon. It's a great place to walk but I was interested in seeing if the Great Spangled Fritillary's were around yet. I saw 5 of them today. I saw a total of 8 species of butterflies including 2 Monarch's! It's a start, though very little is blooming yet. I, actually, only stayed around the parking lot and not for long as the bugs were out & biting. this afternoon. It's a great place to walk but I was interested in seeing if the Great Spangled Fritillary's were around yet. I saw 5 of them today. I saw a total of 8 species of butterflies including 2 Monarch's! It's a start, though very little is blooming yet. I, actually, only stayed around the parking lot and not for long as the bugs were out & biting.

Great Spangled Fritillary's

Great Spangled Fritillary

Great Spangled Fritillary

Great Spangled Fritillary

Tawny-edged

Least 

Meadow Fritillary

Peck's

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

Atglen, PA ~ Wolf's Hollow County Park

 At Wolf's Hollow in Atglen yesterday, I saw 14 species of butterflies. Here are images of some of them. Best butterflies were Ocola & Fiery, both southern strays. I can't find any other records of Ocola being seen there. It was sunny, low to mid 80's with winds 5-8 MPH. So nice to see after a week of drab, rainy weather.

Ocola

Fiery

Variegated Fritillary

Peck's

Painted Lady

Orange Sulphur

Monarch

Meadow Fritillary

American Lady

Around the Yard ~ Birds, Butterflies & Bugs

Pink Southern Moth that feeds on the calyx of Saliva's 

Painted Lady

Variegated Fritillary

Variegated Fritillary

Snowberry Clearwing Moth

Peck's

Eastern Wood-Pewee

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Peck's

Silver-spotted

Peck's

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

 

Nottingham County Park ~ Birds, Butterflies and Other Bugs

 Had a great afternoon visit to Nottingham County Park, Chester County, PA yesterday. There were 5 different Snowberry Clearwing Moths on the butterfly bush with lots of skippers.

Snowberry Clearwing

There were numerous butterflies in the park including a Zebra Swallowtail that didn't sit still for pictures and some type of another swallowtail that was black and blew by me on one of the trails.

Little Glassywing with nectar on proboscis.

Little Glassywing

Little Glassywing

Pearl Crescent

Peck's

Sachem

Sachem

Sachem

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Horace's Duskywing

Eastern-tailed Blue

Eastern-tailed Blue

Peck's with pollinators on Slender Mountain Mint

Eastern Amberwing

Brown Thrasher

Brown Thrasher

Brown Thrasher