Sunday, July 1, 2012

June 30th Ward Pound Ridge's Odonata, Lepidoptera, and Aves...in that order

Leader : Ed Lam

Report from Saturday, June 30 trip to Ward Pound Ridge Reservation. Although the temperature was in the 90’s, there was a gentle breeze, it wasn’t humid and we enjoyed our dragonfly/damselfly/butterfly and birding trip with Ed Lam.


Butterflies:

Common wood nymph

Red Admiral (common)

Dun skipper (common)

Least skipper

Delaware skipper

Little glassy wing skipper

Great spangled fritillary

Question mark

Pearl crescent

Eastern tailed blue

Wood satyr

Dragonflies/damselflies



Black saddlebag

Spangled skimmers

Slaty skimmer

?mocha emerald dragonfly

Blue dasher

Eastern forktail damselfly

Halloween pennat

Pond hawk

Unicorn clubtail

Ebony jewel wing damselfly (many)

Arora damselfly

Fragile forktail

Common White tail

12 spot

Widow Skimmer

Ashy clubtail

Arrowhead spiketail

Tiger spiketail

Cyrano darner (big nose!)

Powdered dancer damselfly

Least clubtail

Dragon hunter clubtail

Shadow darner

Green darner

Birds:

More birds were heard than seen and we barely paid attention to birds. I’m sure Lenore had a much longer list.

Ovenbird

Black & white

Yellow warbler

Common yellow throat

Blue jays

White breasted nuthatch

Common crow

Downy woodpecker

Wood thrush

American robins

Great egret

Eastern phoebe

Indigo bunting

Blue grey Gnatcatcher

Black capped Chickadee

(list submitted by Janet Schumacher)