Proctor 4, a wetland supporting grasses, sedges, cattails, purple loosestrife, Joe-Pye-weed and on the drier ground, boneset and Queen Anne's lace: 08/04, 08/09/ 08/14. Two hours each day, around noon, weather permitting! Species were pretty consistent each day.
Black Swallowtail, Cabbage White, Clouded Sulphur, Orange Sulphur, American Copper*, Bronze Copper*, Eastern Tailed-Blue*, Great Spangled Fritillary*, Silver-bordered Fritillary*, Meadow Fritillary, Pearl Crescent*, Viceroy, Common Ringlet, Common Wood-Nymph, Least Skipper and Peck's Skipper*.
(* Vouchered=Photographed)
Today, 08/17 while monitoring the waterfowl on Lake Bomoseen (Hubbardton), a single Monarch, supplementing its diet with some minerals extracted from a moist area.
Roy Pilcher
Proctor, Vermont.
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