June 21st Birds & Butterflies of Sparta Mountain WMA & Canal Road

Leader: Peter Dorosh  

Participants : Sandy Paci, Kellie Quinones, Louise Burns, Kathy Witten, Jerry Layton, Rusty Harold

Sandy Paci's Facebook gallery 

http://tinyurl.com/SpartaCanal

Rusty Harold gallery

https://picasaweb.google.com/105668412117293290482/SpartaMountainWMA?feat=email

Hackberry Emperor at Canal Road lot , photo by Jerry Layton

Species list

Birds

Double-crested Cormorant f/o 
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
Hairy Woodpecker 

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Willow Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Kingbird
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
American Robin
Wood Thrush
Veery
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow Warbler
American Redstart
Common Yellowthroat
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Northern Parula
Scarlet Tanager
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Baltimore Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
American Goldfinch

Blue Jay

Downy Woodpecker

Tufted Titmouse

Eastern Towhee

House Sparrow

Chipping Sparrow

Northern Flicker

Ovenbird

Butterflies

52 species

Powdered Dancer Damselfly, photo by Sandy Paci
http://wiatri.net/inventory/odonata/SpeciesAccounts/SpeciesDetail.cfm?TaxaID=27

Butterflies :  

Black Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Summer Azure

Great Spangled Fritillary

Eastern Comma

Red -spotted Purple

Viceroy

Hackberry Emperor

Appalachian Brown

Little Wood Satyr

Silver Spotted Skipper

Least Skipper

Zabulon Skipper

Cabbage White

14 Species

Click Beetle on Jerry, photo by Rusty Harold ( Canal Road)

Odonata (list courtesy of Sandy )

Eastern Pondhawk


Widow Skimmer

Common Whitetail

Chalk-fronted Corporal

Eastern Forktail

Dot-tailed Whiteface

Unicorn Clubtail 

Blue Dasher

Ebony Jewelwing

Swamp Spreadwing

Variable Dancer 



          Blue-tipped Dancer




POWERED DANCER-young male (see photo)


Swamp Darner ( expired)

Slaty Skimmer ( Sparta Mt)



     Carolina saddlebags



        Black Saddlebags



       12 Spotted Skimmer

     18 species