Mascoma Audubon's butterfly field trip on Saturday had a good showing of both butterflies and participants. The weather threatened, but the rain didn't begin until we were ending the trip. Despite the intermittent cloudiness, we saw a respectable 24 species of butterflies, and several of us were able to get some photographs. We visited the Wilder substation and the North Hartland Dam entrance dike. Species List: Cabbage White Clouded Sulphur Orange Sulphur Banded Hairstreak Eastern Tailed Blue Spring Azure Summer Azure Great-spangled Fritillary Question Mark Eastern Comma Mourning Cloak Red Admiral Viceroy Little Wood Satyr Common Woodnymph Monarch Silver-spotted Skipper Northern Cloudywing European Skipper Tawny-edged Skipper Long Dash Delaware Skipper Hobomok Skipper Dun Skipper Other highlights were a moose at the wetland below the dike, and a cooperative Indigo Bunting at the substation. Also lots of odonates and Virginia Ctenuchid moths. Terry Rosenmeier Mascoma Audubon **************************************************************** To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list owner: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web based archives and subscription management are available at: http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html ****************************************************************