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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>And small orange ones, too.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>These are from NY, as is usually the case with me, but of general interest I think. I’m not the first on this, but I observed a Cloudless Sulphur yesterday, while shorebirding at Cupsogue County Park in Westhampton Dunes. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Spurred by some of the reports on this list in the last week, today I visited the extensive row of butterfly bushes at Floyd Bennet Field in Kings co. It was quite different than last week, when skippers were one Broad-winged and one Zabulon. Today there were 20+ Sachems, 1 Fiery, 1 Zabulon, several Swarthy (last week found only in meadows), and most surprisingly, a Crossline Skipper. Long Island is not quite within their double brood range, but we do see them on rare occasions. And I suppose, it could just as well be a migrant from the double brood range as it is a local. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Also at Floyd, I checked a couple of buildings where I used to find moths that were drawn in by lights. A huge surprise was a fresh Io Moth. Floyd is a site I used to include in my ongoing Jamaica Bay moth survey, now mostly restricted to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Io Moths have remained common through the 16 years I’ve been surveying and make themselves conspicuous, so I have a good dataset to work with. I’ve recorded them from May 22 through July 30, with most records in June. So an August 28 record is certainly an outlier. In fact, it’s the first Saturnid I’ve seen after August 5, other than the fall flying Buck Moth.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Then it was back to shorebirding – at Jamaica Bay’s East Pond. In the process, I came across two Salt Marsh Skippers. I find them there from time to time, usually nectaring on Salt Marsh Fleabane. Since I need to change content on my web site once in a while, I posted a picture. For those interested, it can be found at <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__stevewalternature.com_&d=CwMFAg&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wPbNkt6T_H4X7m_PlvSFCGU2a9-csNvfRK2IVMi-mp0&m=S4miY4V57nkWTo4m5W3VGOxPsK0YvkYmwV32bHH9hGI&s=XRCR95kf-9Idc_f9dxqb8-r-3G3qZYIb4O-cSru-Bac&e=">http://stevewalternature.com/</a> under the Butterflies tab.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Steve Walter<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bayside, NY<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>