Pt Lookout Field Trip
Robert Ringler (ringler@cct.infi.net)
Sat, 05 Sep 1998 22:12:40 -0700
Seen on the Anne Arundel Bird Club field trip to Point Lookout to see
butterflies and birds:
Birds included the immature Wood Stork at the pond, Brown Pelicans, 7
Snowy Egrets, numerous migrating kestrels and a few Sharp-shins, Least
Flycatcher, Warblers: Yellow, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Blackburnian,
Prairie, western Palm, Black-&-white, Redstart, Yellowthroat, Hooded, and
Canada.
Butterflies included Tiger Swallowtail, Spicebush Swallowtail, Clouded
Sulfur, Orange Sulfur, hundreds of Cloudless Sulfurs, 1 White-M
Hairstreak, many Gray Hairstreaks, 2 Summer Azures, Variegated
Fritillary, many Pearl Crescents, Comma, many Buckeyes, Red-spotted
Purple, Wood Nymph, many Monarchs, a possible Horace's Duskywing, 1 Wild
Indigo Duskywing, many Clouded Skippers, 1 Fiery Skipper, dozens of
Sachems, and several Broad-winged Skippers.
Nearby at the end of Long Neck Road we added Short-billed Dowitcher to
the bird list and Black Swallowtail, Cabbage Butterfly, Eastern Tailed
Blue, and Least Skipper to the butterflies.
In Calvert County, at the North Beach mudflats were 1 Avocet, 1
Semipalmated Plover, 1 Tricolored Heron, and 40 Snowy Egrets. Most of
the peeps were unidentifiable in the afternoon sun.
In Anne Arundel County at a large patch of New York Ironweed we added our
last butterfly of the day, a Silver-spotted Skipper.
Bob Ringler