Avian Ecologist

Moving to Cape May!

Today we left the Midwest; moves are always bittersweet. Yet, I’m so excited to explore the ecosystems of my soon to be new home!

WI Butterflies – Last Week July

marine blue – very rare! Reakirt’s blue – Burnett Co. green comma tawny-edged skipper

L.H. Barkhausen

We walked around in the sensory woods and up to the observation tower tonight!

Lilly Lake

We got Paul’s canoe and went for a paddle on this lovely Brown Co. WI lake this evening!

NEOWISE

We got to see this amazing comet tonight!

WI Butterflies – 3rd Week July

Bold species found in Douglas Co., WI! striped hairstreak northern broken-dash broad-winged skipper black dash

We revisited the park this evening but with new eyes: I learned that the trees were more or less “original,” or probably a century or 2 old! I looked at the 1976 Wisconsin historic landcover map, and learned that Paul’s grandparents’ suburban yard was likely originally sugar maple, basswood, red oak, white oak and black […]

WI Butterflies – 2nd Week July

This is a great time to look for butterflies! To switch it up, this week’s post has Brown Co. species in bold. (I’ll be staying in Green Bay after I move out tomorrow until my new rental unit is ready!) Little yellow gray copper Acadian hairstreak juniper hairstreak American snout tawny emperor funereal duskywing wild […]

WI Butterflies – 1st Week July

These peak weeks are interpreted from the histograms per species on Wisconsin Butterflies. hickory hairstreak Poweshiek skipperling Ottoe skipper two-spotted skipper Happy butterfly watching!

Wisconsin Butterflies – End of June

As prior mentioned, I “deconstructed” the histograms on Mike’s site to list species by their peak occurrence dates. This is mostly to help me, as I’m learning butterflies, to know what’s occurring here when. For this week… northern blue tawny crescent southern cloudywing