This morning at the gamelands and vicinity ended up warm, but it was good to see what was around. See below for lists of birds, butterflies and dragons found.
Good views of singing Prairie warblers and YB chats. Doug Johnston
Sandy Mush Gamelands Bear creek access, Buncombe, US-NC May 27, 2012 8:15 AM - 12:15 PM Protocol: Traveling 3.0 mile(s) Comments: Temperatures 60's to 80's, sunny skies, light wind SE 40 species Northern Bobwhite 3 Wild Turkey 1 Great Blue Heron 1 Black Vulture 1 Turkey Vulture 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Mourning Dove 4 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Chimney Swift 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Acadian Flycatcher 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird 1 White-eyed Vireo 5 Red-eyed Vireo 6 Blue Jay 1 American Crow 4 Tree Swallow 3 Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 2 Carolina Wren 4 American Robin 5 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 24 Ovenbird 1 Hooded Warbler 6 Pine Warbler 1 Prairie Warbler 3 Yellow-breasted Chat 6 Eastern Towhee 8 Field Sparrow 9 Song Sparrow 1 Scarlet Tanager 1 Northern Cardinal 3 Indigo Bunting 12 Eastern Meadowlark 3 Common Grackle 1 American Goldfinch 4 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
Pipevine ST - 1 Black ST - 1 tiger ST - 2 Spicebush ST - 1 Cabbage white - 3 Clouded sulphur - 3 Orange sulphur - 28 white sulphur spp - 2 Cloudless sulphur - 1 worn Harvester - 1 Gray hairstreak - 3 ETB - 26 Summer azure - 11 Variegated fritillary - 3 Great spangled fritillary - 23 Pearl crescent - 4 Question mark - 3 American lady - 2 Red spotted purple - 1 Hackberry emperor - 1 Little wood satyr - 2 satyr spp - 4 Silver spotted skipper - 2 N cloudywing - 5 Horace's duskywing - 1 very worn Clouded skipper - 1 Peck's skipper - 1 Crossline skipper - 2 Sachem - 1 extremely worn Zabulon skipper - 3 Lancet clubtail - 1 Ashy clubtail - 7 Appalachian snaketail - 2 Widow skimmer - 1 12 spotted skimmer - 9 Blue dasher - 1 Common whitetail - 7 Ruby meadowhawk - 13 App jewelwing - 1 Ebony jewelwing - 11 Southern spreadwing - 9 Azure bluet - 5 Stream bluet - 2 Fragile forktail - 5
