[TN-Butterflies] Re: Williamson County - April 25, 2009
- From: kjchilds <kjchilds@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Tennessee Butterflies <tn-butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:06:45 -0700 (PDT)
It's always cool to find something new!
Here's a shot I took yesterday of an atypical looking Juniper Hairstreak for
this area. It was smaller than normal and had almost no green.
http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p193/kjchilds/IMG_6874.jpg
Ken Childs
Henderson, TN
Chester County
http://www.finishflagfarms.com
--- On Sat, 4/25/09, Michael Lee Bierly <mlbierly@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Michael Lee Bierly <mlbierly@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [TN-Butterflies] Re: Williamson County - April 25, 2009
> To: "Tennessee Butterflies" <tn-butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Susan Schott" <schottbirds@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Saturday, April 25, 2009, 8:08 PM
>
>
>
> Message
>
>
>
> April 25, 2009.
> Williamson County, Tennessee.
>
> If you don't want
> the gush, click the attachment and check your next email,
> but if...read
> on.
>
> Now, if you have never been with me when something good
> happens, you might get
> embarrassed. I seldom only leave my 96-year old
> Dad for a couple of
> hours a week for groceries, but getting springs plants
> allows a rare exception.
> My only place to look for butterflies is
> normally from my
> 57'x150' yard. I had just arrived at Mill
> Creek Gardens in Williamson
> County (north of the city of Nolensville), a retail
> garden site snuggled
> into a hill, and was saying hello to the owners and others
> who I know when this
> small 'fly appeared flying low in front of me and then
> landed right at me. My
> gasp and vocalizations brought everyone around. My first
> Juniper Hairstreak.
> Yes, there are large junipers scattered amongst the
> deciduous
> trees.
>
> After getting saturation looks at the Juniper, I
> proceeded into one of the
> open large greenhouses when my eye caught a small white
> 'fly at the other end. I
> exclaimed that it couldn't be a Cabbage White
> as it was too small, flew
> different, and the shape was different. I moved around with
> it for a few minutes
> until it came lower and, you couldn't have gotten a
> louder howler out of my
> if you pinched me when I saw the orange tips. My first
> Falcate Orangetip. It
> never allowed a pic though many looks at those orange tips
> (thank goodness it
> was a male).
>
> As two hours is my limit and it is a 40 minute drive each
> way, there was no time
> to explore the hillside and these were the only two
> butterflies that I
> saw.
>
> Mill Creek Gardens,
> 7049 Nolensville Road, Brentwood, TN
> 37027
>
> 35.98433 and -86.68204 (Google Maps
> API)
>
> Michael Lee Bierly,
> Nashville, Davidson County, TN
>
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