[Ctleps-l] Ocalas at the mouth of the Housatonic

[James Dugan]

9/24/16 - Two Ocala Skippers at the CT Audubon Center at Stratford Point at 1:30 PM on the zinnias by the main building. We didn’t see them again during a couple of visits to the garden over the next hour and a half. One Cloudless Sulphur, a couple of Gray Hairstreaks along with the usual suspects were in the area. There is still a large number of Eastern Tailed Blues around the “Two Roads” trail.
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9/24/16 - One Ocala Skipper at CT Audubon Coastal Center, Milford, at 4:30 PM, in the pollinator garden visiting several different nectar sources. This individual was very skittish. 

A murmuration of several thousand Tree Swallows (I didn’t see any other species, but I didn’t pick through every single one either) were making passes just west of the Francis Street spit, prior to finding the Ocala, that wasn’t seen on the first pass of the garden. I might have also had it on the 21st. Some skipper flew out of there and into the tree line that day as I approached the garden. Looked possible.

Jim Dugan, New Milford
Carol Winters, Stamford