Mystery Moth @ the Celery Farm
May 17, 2013
Julie McCall writes:
Saw a cool moth yesterday at CF, and thought I'd send it your way ....It's not the best photo ever taken, but I didn't want to go off trail to get closer.
I was lingering around the Aisle A Dam this morning, trying to locate a Swainson's Thrush that's been reported there for several days. With the warm weather today, I finally started seeing more butterflies, and, at long last, some dragonflies. So my eyes were darting at pretty much everything that moved, even if it wasn't bird-shaped. I saw some fluttering, but thought, "That's too grey to be a butterfly..."
Good thing I saw it in flight, because it chose just then to land, and simply melted into the tree bark. I never would have seen it if I came upon it afterwards.
It was a birdy day. I had over 60 bird species, including Eastern
Wood-Pewee, Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, 2 Swainson's
Thrushes, numerous Wood Thrushes and Veerys, both orioles, Yellow-billed
Cuckoo 2 days in a row, Wilson's Warbler + 8 other warbler species...
EIGHT Great Blues in the lake at once (this may or may not be a record,
but I've never seen so many in the lake at one time.)
...And I also had 3 out-of-water snapping turtles within a 50-foot stretch of path along the brook. They had me surrounded!
Thanks, Julie!