Sunday, July 28, 2013

Butterflying in Southboro

The sun finally came out around 10AM so I headed over to Southboro to take a walk.

Sudbury Reservoir Trail (near entrance to Beals Preserve)

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird on barbed wire fence


Pearl Crescent


Least Skipper


Eastern Tiger Swallowtail


Clouded Sulphur


Eastern Tiger Swallowtail


Black-Eyed Susan with Fasciation


Red-Spotted Purple 
in the mud near the cows' drinking area


Monarch


Pearl Crescent


Common Ringlet


In the afternoon, I stopped at Breakneck Hill Conservation Land.

Great Spangled Fritillary


Eastern Tiger Swallowtail


Eastern Tailed Blue on Cow Vetch


American Goldfinch



Fighting off a pushy male who tried to get on the same thistle.


Mating Eastern-Tailed Blues




Snowberry Clearwing Moth


Spicebush Swallowtail



Spicebush Swallowtail on phlox



This last photo shows a particularly pretty section of the meadow.  You can see Goldenrod, Blue Vervain, Joe Pye Weed, Fleabane, and Queen Anne's Lace among the blooming wildflowers.

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