Northern Essex County Results

[Russ Hopping]

This count was held on Sunday (6/28). Weather was excellent, but numbers and species observed seemed to be down as other reports have mentioned. 22 species in total across four sites. Six observers totaling almost 20 person hours.

Maudslay State Park (Newburyport) 11am – 3:30pm (Bo Zaremba)

1 Cabbage White

1 Banded Hairstreak

2 “Summer” Spring Azure

1 Great Spangled Fritillary

2 Baltimore Checkerspot

14 Little Wood Satyr

2 Common Ringlet

2 Monarch

2 Silver-spotted Skipper

7 European Skipper

1 Peck’s Skipper

2 long dash skipper

21 Little Glassywing

Pike’s Bridge Rd, West Newbury  4pm - 4:45pm (Bo Zaremba)

1 Cabbage White

1 “Summer” Spring Azure

25 Little Wood Satyr

1 Silver-spotted Skipper

 

Martin Burn WMA in Newbury 2:45 - 4:45 (Bill Gette) conducted on 6/27

1 Summer Azure 

1 Clouded Sulphur 

6 Little Wood Satyr 

1 Eastern Tailed-blue 

Appleton Farms (Ipswich) 10:00 - 1:30 (Russ Hopping, Mike Gordon, Alejandro Bambila, Andreas ?)

26 cabbage white 

4 orange sulphur

22 clouded sulphur

5 bronze copper (very active)

1 Eastern tailed blue (white clover in path)

6 summer azure (5 active around a glossy buckthorn)

4 silver bordered fritillary (most very worn, grazed wet meadow)

2 eyed brown (sedge dominated wet meadow)

1 little wood satyr

6 monarch (some worn)

1 silver spotted skipper

10 least skipper

1 Pecks skipper

1 northern broken dash

1 Zabulon skipper

2 unknown skipper (too fast)