6 new Year Butterflies!

[Clay Taylor]

Hi All -

    In all the years of the East Haddam Butterfly Count, I have always meant to get into the Babcock Pond area (now the Babcock Pond Wildlife Management Area), but never made the time come count day.  Well, the time is nigh.

    I haven't visited the area since Altasing, and BOY, has it gotten good!   There are three main areas that the State has done habitat work, including a dandy wildlife viewing blind and a boardwalk across a wooded pond.  There were some great stands of milkweed, and a wildflower field that has great potential.  Driving the dirt roads also popped up things like RSPs and Mourning Cloaks.

The List (* means new for me in 2001)
E. Tiger  Swallowtail
Spicebush Swallowtail
Banded Hairstreak
*Striped Hairstreak
Grt. Spangled Fritillary
Am. Lady
Mourning Cloak
Red-Spotted Purple
Little Wood Satyr (the next generation / species)
*Common Wood Nymph  - lots
*Crossline Skipper - so big and fresh that I was stumped for a minute
*Northern Broken-Dash
*Delaware Skipper
*Dun Skipper
Hobomok Skipper - worn but active



Clay Taylor
Moodus, CT



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