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)
