For all Osprey butterfliers: The Pipevine Swallowtails we are seeing in this area seem to be southern immigrants. This same sort of flight happened a few years ago as Marshall described. As Mark mentioned they are more common in western Maryland. On Sunday, July 11 with three other butterfly enthusiasts I did a butterfly count in eastern Allegany County for the fifth consecutive year. We had our best species tally ever, 38, and Pipevine was our most common swallowtail, outnumbering the other four species combined. Here is the tally: Pipevine Swallowtail 20 Zebra Swallowtail 1 Black Swallowtail 3 Tiger Swallowtail 5 (including 1 black tiger) Spicebush Swallowtail 10 Cabbage Butterfly 50 (a new high) Clouded Sulfur 11 (a new high) Orange Sulfur 19 American Copper 7 Coral Hairstreak 7 Banded Hairstreak 7 Northern Hairstreak 1 (endangered in Md. and not seen for some years) Gray Hairstreak 3 Eastern Tailed Blue 12 Northern Metalmark 76 Variegated Fritillary 1 Great Spangled Fritillary 100 Aphrodite 1 Meadow Fritillary 1 Pearl Crescent 52 American Lady 6 Red Admiral 3 Red-spotted Purple (a new low) Hackberry Butterfly 1 Tawny Emperor 3 Little Wood Satyr 1 Wood Nymph 11 Monarch 1 Silver-spotted Skipper 201 Hoary Edge 1 Horace's Duskywing 1 Wild Indigo Duskywing 6 Checkered Skipper 3 Fiery Skipper 7 (a new species for the county this southern immigrant seems to be coming into our area very early this summer) Little Glassy Wing 25 Sachem 3 (a new species for the county also) Delaware Skipper 3 Dun Skipper 10 Unidentified witches 8 Total Individuals 687 by 4 observers in 1 party in 10 hours. As for birds that day the local Broad-winged Hawks were very vocal and showing themselves in several locations. Bob Ringler