9/19/25 - Late Summer butterflies, Newbury + Ipswich

[Paul Seaman]

Beautiful weather here today on the North Shore, high 70s all day long and not a cloud in the sky. I spent a few hours searching for butterflies this afternoon up in Newbury and was delighted to find lots of activity, including some unusual late summer migrants: an Ocola Skipper and two Common Buckeyes, neither of which I had seen before. 

9/19/25 - Newman Farm Meadow - Newbury, MA

Ocola Skipper 1x 

Cabbage White 1x

9/19/25 - William Forward WMA (Kents Island) - Newbury, MA

Cabbage White 12x
Orange Sulphur 7x
Clouded Sulphur 32x
Eastern Tailed-Blue 2x
American Lady 2x
Monarch 4x
Gray Hairstreak 2x
Black Swallowtail 1x
Common Buckeye 2x 

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and two quick lists from yesterday in Ipswich, again searching for Bronze Coppers:

9/18/25 - Julia Bird Reservation - Ipswich, MA

American Copper 1x
Clouded Sulphur 4x
Orange Sulphur 2x
Common Ringlet 3x

9/18/25 - New England Biolabs (Miles River Floodplain) - Ipswich, MA

Clouded Sulphur 3x
American Copper 2x
Common Ringlet 14x

a few mediocre photos from this afternoon:

Gray Hairstreak

Common Buckeye

American Lady