Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:17:17 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: marty cribb Subject: Re: Red Admiral butterfly flight MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gail & All, At Point Lookout Red Admirals are abundant in Aug, Sept, October. Yesterday's flight was spectacular here at PLO. Good flight of American Lady Butterflies also but the Red Admirals outnumbered 10:1. Marty Cribb, Point Lookout, St Marys Co, Md. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gail Mackiernan" To: Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 9:44 AM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Red Admiral butterfly flight > Hi all -- > > The last couple of days have had a tremendous passage of Red Admiral > butterflies. You may recall I noted a dozens flying along Hains Point and > Kenilworth, and through our yard in Silver Spring until midafternoon when > the bad weather came in. We were seeing 5-6 every minute flying northeast, > just through our suburban back yard. Seevral other folks noted them from > widely separated locations yesterday. > > Well, the flight is continuing today - somewhat fewer at the moment but > still 1-3 a minute across our back garden. I wonder how many might be seen > at concentration points? I don't recall ever seeing this before with this > species. Painted Ladies and Monarchs, yes. > > Gail Mackiernan > Colesville, MD > gail@umdd.umd.edu > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================