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
White-winged Scoters at Beaverfork Lake.
A friend reported that as many as 12 White-winged Scoters were there Friday afternoon. Saturday morning there were fewer but I saw three. The light was terrible but I managed to get this shot of a male and female. You can see the namesake white wing and commas near the eyes of the male as well as the scoter-like schnozzola.
