<div dir="ltr">Hey all,<div><br></div><div>Went for my weekend trip upstate to see what was flying in the mountains. My targets were hairstreaks, skippers, Baltimores, and the metalmark. I walked the entire length of the RR track from the beginning of Sand Road in Canaan to Page Rd. and the Hollenbeck Preserve. That hike wasn't kind on my feet, but was kind on the leps.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Spoiler alert: there are no Northern Metalmarks here despite the vicinity of the quarries and the numerous Black-eyed Susans and favorable open dry habitat. If the host was there, it wasn't flowering anymore. I mistook another yellow aster for the host, but it was not it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Black Swallowtail - 1 female</div><div>Cabbage White</div><div>Clouded Sulphur</div><div>Banded Hairstreak - 3</div><div>Summer Azure - 2</div><div>ETB</div><div>Great Spangled Fritillary - lots (no Aphrodites seen)</div>
<div>Meadow Fritillary - 3 (ran frantically after these thinking they were B. selene)</div><div>Pearl Crescent - 2 (given the metalmark, glad these weren't all over faking me out)</div><div>Baltimore Checkerspot (3 separate colonies, Hollenbeck had 20+)</div>
<div>Eastern Comma</div><div>American Lady - 1</div><div>Red Admiral - 1</div><div>Viceroy - 3</div><div>Monarch - 1</div><div>Eyed Brown - 20+ (at Hollenbeck only)</div><div>Little Wood Satyr - 4</div><div>Common Wood Nymph </div>
<div>SSS</div><div>Least Skipper</div><div>Northern Broken-dash</div><div>Little Glassywing</div><div>Delaware Skipper - 8+</div><div>Mulberry Wing - 20+ (all along Sand Road on milkweed, vetch, and thistle)</div><div>Broadwinged Skipper - 6+</div>
<div>Dion Skipper - 8+ (on thistle near hayfield and near old train cars)</div><div>Black Dash - 30+ (all over perched in grass, and nectaring on milkweed and thistle)</div><div>Dun Skipper - 2</div><div><br></div><div>Also went up to north Jersey with my friend and saw pretty much the same list of species (minus the hairstreak and Dun Skipper) with a few additions:</div>
<div>Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1</div><div>Orange Sulphur - 3</div><div>Mourning Cloak - 1</div><div>Tawny Emperor - 1</div><div>Northern Pearly-eye - 4+</div><div>Horace's Duskywing - 1 fresh male</div><div>Wild Indigo Duskywing - 1</div>
<div><br></div><div>Saw 2 Monarchs there, 5 Dions, several Baltimores. Went to two Metalmark localities and found NOTHING.</div><div><br></div><div>Also NO hairstreaks in Jersey, what's up wit that?</div><div><br></div>
<div>Ray Simpson</div></div>