Howard County Bird Club
A Chapter of the Maryland Ornithological Society
Butterfly Walk
Mount Pleasant
| Trip leaders: Annette Allor, Linda Hunt, Woody Merkle | Date of trip: August 6, 2022 |
| Location: Mount Pleasant | Number attending: 16 adults plus 1 child |
| Details: Walk started at 10:30 a.m. Areas covered: Honors Garden, Butterfly Garden, Community Garden, bridge at the beaver dam and pathways between these locations. Butterfly list by leaders, butterfly photos and bird list by Mary Maxey. | |
Butterflies:
Silver-spotted Skipper: 12
Horace’s Duskywing: 4
Wild Indigo Duskywing: 2
Common Checkered-Skipper:
Common Sootywing: 1
Least Skipper: 5
Fiery Skipper: 2
Peck’s Skipper: 4
Tawny-edged Skipper: 1
Little Glassywing: 10
Sachem: 10
Zabulon Skipper: 13
Ocola Skipper: 1
Pipevine Swallowtail:
Black Swallowtail: 1
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: 30
Spicebush Swallowtail: 3
Cabbage White: 10
Orange Sulphur: 3
Cloudless Sulphur: 2
Sleepy Orange: 8
Red-banded Hairstreak: 2
Eastern Tailed-Blue: 5
Summer Azure: 1
Pearl Crescent: 6
American Lady: 1
Red Admiral: 1
Viceroy: 2
Northern Pearly-eye: 3
Monarch-adult: 8
Birds:
Mourning Dove 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 7
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
American Crow 2
Carolina Chickadee 2
Tufted Titmouse 1
Barn Swallow 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
European Starling 1
Gray Catbird 4
Northern Mockingbird 2
American Robin 1
House Sparrow 8
American Goldfinch 2
Chipping Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 2
Indigo Bunting 2