I know winter ended and spring started back on March 20. Last night we had about a half an inch of snow. That melted off by noon, and the temps went up to 55. I put my xc skis on,(yes we still have that much snow,up to 2 feet in the woods), and went out across the field. That degraded into a shuffle, then slog, and finally I took them off walked across the grass and came back up the road.
Later, I went out and saw a butterfly. What?! Wait! What are you? I chased it down and snapped a picture of it. Camera phones suck, but as a record shot, it works. A Milbert's Tortoiseshell (Aglais milberti), and that is the first of spring butterfly for me.
And the birds are heading back too. A Kestrel made a flyby, and the woodcocks were busy peenting this morning. Saturday night, I go out for owl monitoring. The weather looks bad, but at least I can start a post with "It was a dark and stormy night..."
2 comments:
Nice shot of the Milbert's. I've never seen one in New England, though I have seen many here in the Midwest.
Thank you, it was definitely a challenge running after the little bugger with a cellphone. I see Milbert's often enough up here, I just checked a range map and they have a historic record for my town. One of those things, we have gaps to fill. It's funny how you can see something on a regular basis (or often enough), and you mention that you have something and to them it's rare.
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