MBC Field Trip - Broad Meadow Brook, Worcester - 6.14.26

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17 of us searched for butterflies today at Mass Audubon’s Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary in Worcester. It was a good day for Hoary Edges:

 

Cardinal Trail and Powerline Trail

Cabbage White – 3

Orange Sulphur – 1

Banded Hairstreak – 1 (some discussion – photo may confirm ID)

Spring Azure – 1

Eastern Tailed Blue – 1

Common Ringlet – 1

Silver-spotted Skipper – 3

Hoary Edge – 10+

Northern Cloudywing – 1

Cloudywing sp. – 1

Tawny-edged Skipper – 2

Peck’s Skipper – 4

Hobomok Skipper – 1

Zabulon Skipper – 1

Plus a few unidentified fly-bys and good views of a beautiful Prairie Warbler

 

Troiano Brookside Trail

Cabbage White – 6

Silver-spotted Skipper – 1

And a possible Red Admiral, but we couldn’t get good enough views to confirm, and an unID’ed flyby.

Plus a great show by a Red-winged blackbird with amazingly bright epaulets and the discovery of dried turtle egg pieces that we imagined was the result of predation.

 

Anyone who attended today, please feel free to chime in with your observations, corrections, and photos. Attached is a photo of our lovely, fun group.

 

Kristin Steinmetz

 

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Two of the folks on the BMB field trip formed a "rear guard" and kindly reported the butterflies they observed, mainly at the junction of the Cardinal Trail and the Powerlines:

Tiger Swallowtail

Orange Sulphur

Cabbage White

Spring Azure