Milbert's Tortoiseshells

[Elise & Karl Barry]

On a sunny Wednesday, the 21st of August, temp about 55 degrees, wind about 
5 mph, between 1:30 and 2 p.m.,  at about 6000 ft. on the side of the Auto 
Road on Mount Washington, were 5 very fresh, and very fuzzy, Milbert's 
Tortoiseshells. They were flying around the rocks where we stopped to have 
lunch. Three of them were still there after we finished lunch and left. 
They spent all that time flying low around, and mostly behind, a boulder 
that was out of the wind. They were nectaring there on a large patch of 
alpine (Solidago Cutleri) or large-leaved goldenrod (Solidago macrophylla), 
couldn't be sure which.

Elise Barry