Category Archives: Wildlife

calcarius (spur) pictus (painted) Monday, December 27, 1999 — 9:45 am Stuttgart, Arkansas — Stuttgart Municipal Airport I first learned that Smith’s Longspurs could be seen at the Stuttgart Airport from A Birder’s Guide to Arkansas. I spent a day … Continue reading →

gavia (sea smew) pacifica (of the Pacific) Monday, September 20, 1999 — 6:45 pm Crystal Lake, Illinois — Vulcan Lake — Dartmoor Road This one was easy. I got an E-mail from IBET at work this afternoon reporting a Pacific … Continue reading →

limenitis archippus Friday, August 6, 1999 — 9:45 am Moraine Hills State Park, Illinois I was walking the Leatherleaf Bog trail through an area of bushes and brush not far beyond the two marshes near the trailhead. The Viceroy flashed past … Continue reading →

colias philodice Friday, August 6, 1999 — 9:30 am Moraine Hills State Park, Illinois This butterfly was flitting low over the path and the mowed grass along the edge of a large, weedy field on the Letherleaf Bog trail. It rarely … Continue reading →

colias eurytheme Friday, August 6, 1999 — 9:10 am Moraine Hills State Park, Illinois I was walking through an open weedy glade about halfway around the Leatherleaf Bog trail. The sulphur was flitting over the path and the grass along its … Continue reading →