Beverlybaynes
Mod Squad
I"m just beginning to learn butterflies. And it's still early enough in Indiana that what butterflies you do see really do catch the eye!
I went on a mini-field trip to Fox Island, a county park in SW Allen Cunty, about 25 minutes from home this morning, on a clear sunny day, breezy, with temps rising through the 40s.
And I was greeted with several very small b'flies that were unfamiliar to me, but I was able to identify them later as Spring Azures. I would have called them Periwinkles, tho, because the color on the top of their wings said 'pale periwinkle' to me!!
This was a 'lifer' butterfly for me!!
Then, while checking out the marshy pond behind the nature center, I spied my first Mourning Cloak butterfly of the year -- a huge (it seemed) specimen that was easily seen by eye from quite a distance away, and appeared enormous through the binos!!
And to top it all off, as I drove into the driveway at home, another Mourning Cloak was dancing over my rooftop!
I went on a mini-field trip to Fox Island, a county park in SW Allen Cunty, about 25 minutes from home this morning, on a clear sunny day, breezy, with temps rising through the 40s.
And I was greeted with several very small b'flies that were unfamiliar to me, but I was able to identify them later as Spring Azures. I would have called them Periwinkles, tho, because the color on the top of their wings said 'pale periwinkle' to me!!
This was a 'lifer' butterfly for me!!
Then, while checking out the marshy pond behind the nature center, I spied my first Mourning Cloak butterfly of the year -- a huge (it seemed) specimen that was easily seen by eye from quite a distance away, and appeared enormous through the binos!!
And to top it all off, as I drove into the driveway at home, another Mourning Cloak was dancing over my rooftop!
