Vin Stanton and I visited the Cedar Hill area of the Gamelands today. We also walked on over the Sandy Mush Creek to Madison county.
First numbers are for Buncombe, second for Madison Doug Johnston
Sandy Mush Game Land--Cedar Hill Road #3, Buncombe, US-NC Jul 22, 2012 8:30 AM - 1:30 PM Protocol: Traveling 4.0 mile(s) Comments: Mostly sun, light breeze, temps 60's to high 80's 37 species (+1 other taxa) Northern Bobwhite 3 Wild Turkey 8 Black Vulture 2 Turkey Vulture 8 Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Kestrel 1 Mourning Dove 30 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2 Chimney Swift 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 5 Eastern Kingbird 1 Red-eyed Vireo 3 Blue Jay 5 American Crow 12 Purple Martin 8 Barn Swallow 1 Carolina Chickadee 4 Tufted Titmouse 2 Carolina Wren 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3 Eastern Bluebird 7 American Robin 2 Northern Mockingbird 5 European Starling 15 Cedar Waxwing 3 Common Yellowthroat 1 American Redstart 1 Eastern Towhee 6 Field Sparrow 7 Song Sparrow 2 sparrow sp. 12 Scarlet Tanager 1 Northern Cardinal 9 Indigo Bunting 15 American Goldfinch 10 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
ButterfliesThe high ground on the Madison county side of the creek had a good number of butterflies on a variety of nectar plants.
Pipevine ST - 0 - 6 Black ST - 0 - 3 E tiger ST - 2 - 5 Spicebush ST - 0 - 4 Cabbage white - 2 - 2 Clouded sulphur - 3 - 0 Orange sulphur - 1 - 0 Cloudless sulphur - 0 - 2 Juniper hairstreak - 0 - 1 Gray hairstreak - 0 - 1 Red banded hairstreak - 0 - 2 ETB - 5 - 11 Variegated fritillary - 0 - 2 Silvery checkerspot - 0 - 2 Pearl crescent - 7 - 8 PAINTED lady - 0 - 1 Red admiral - 1 - 1 Common buckeye - 1 - 2 Red spotted purple - 3 - 1 Hackberry emperor - 1 - 0 Gemmed satyr - 1 - 0 Carolina satyr - 35 - 4 Common wood nymph - 2 - 0 Silver spotted skipper - 4 - 15 LONG TAILED skipper - 0 - 1 Hoary edge - 0 - 5 Hayhurst's scallopwing - 0 - 1 Common sootywing - 1 - 1 Clouded skipper - 1 - 2 Least skipper - 0 - 3 Peck's skipper - 0 - 3 - fresh Sachem - 1 - 5 - worn mostly Zabulon skipper - 2 - 14 - fresh Dun skipper - 1 - 3 Odes Sandy Mush Creek was in spate, so far fewer damsels than normal Fawn darner - 0 - 2 Eastern ringtail - 0 - 1 Allegheny river cruiser - 2 - 5 Widow skimmer - 0 - 1 Common whitetail - 2 - 2 Autumn meadowhawk - 1 - 0 Black saddlebags - 1 - 0 Ebony jewelwing - 2 - 4 A. rubyspot - 9 - 30 Blue fronted dancer - 2 - 10+ Variable dancer - 0 - 1 Powdered dancer - 12 - 25 Blue ringed dancer - 4 - 12 Blue tipped dancer - 1 - 15 Dusky dancer - 0 - 4
