Butterfly Walk at Gwynedd Preserve

This morning Jane Ruffin led a butterfly walk at the Natural Lands trust preserve at Gwynedd.

An early sighting was of this grey hairstreak.

The butterflies were few and far between, which seems to be the pattern for this year.  Probably due to the bad winter?  Here is a least skipper on a leaf, and we saw some Monarchs and orange sulphurs flying.

In the garden in front of the headquarters was this lovely female black swallowtail.

Also an eastern tiger swallowtail.

Not a very good photo, but nice to see two together.

This least skipper was delighted to sip some perspiration from Jane's shirt at the end of the walk.  But at least the weather was better than on Wednesday.  And I think everyone enjoyed the walk and Jane's expertise on butterflies.