Roseate Spoonbill seen today in water along side the road in Desha County Arkansas with Sam Dixon, Dottie Boyles, Doris Boyles, Cindy Franklin, Bill Burnham, Karen Holliday, and Justin Brand> Other cool birds seen – Glossy Ibis, White-faced Ibis, White Ibis, Wood Stork, Wilson’s Warbler.
Audubon Arkansas Butterfly Walk
Uta & Dan from Audubon Arkansas hosted a Butterfly Walk at the Central Arkansas Water Sod Farm (formerly Winrock Sod Farm) today. The conditions were cool and cloudy, very much not July weather, which kept the bug activity but we saw a few. Here are some.
Arkansas Arboretum 4/20/2014
I walked the “field” trail at the arboretum today in my first primarily butterflies and dragonflies attempt this year. Had a Red-banded Hairstreak, several Eastern Tailed-Blues, a Gemmed Satyr, some kind of Cloudywing I think, and yesterday saw two Zebra Swallowtails at the same place. Among the dragons were an Oklahoma Clubtail, what I think is an Ozark Clubtail, several Mantled Baskettails, and one Stream Cruiser. Looking at last year’s pictures I appear to have thought these were Slender Baskettails but they look more like Mantled.
Stream Cruiser
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Gemmed Satyr
Mantled Baskettail
Oklahoma Clubtail
Ozark Clubtail?
Red-banded Hairstreak
