Bay Photos by Donna

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While seeking birds the past six weeks, I tried my hand at capturing our summer’s butterflies and skippers at Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge’s Bayview Butterfly Garden and trail.

I’m sharing a photo collection of all the butterflies (15) and skipper (3) species I was lucky to capture and hopefully identified correctly.  If I’ve misidentified any, please, please let me know, butterfly experts!

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Monarch

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Cabbage White

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Pearl Crescent

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Summer Azure

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Variegated Fritillary

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Eastern Tailed-blue

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Hobomok (or Zabulon?) Skipper

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Common Buckeye

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Silver-spotted Skipper

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Unidentified Skipper

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Clouded or Orange Sulphur

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Clouded or Orange Sulphur

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Cloudless Sulphur

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Red-spotted Purple

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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

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Spicebush Swallowtail (female)

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Black Swallowtail

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and finally, the last one….

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Zebra Swallowtail

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“Butterflies.…flowers that fly and all but sing.”  – Robert Frost

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A peek at the gardens and fields of flowers at the refuge where the butterflies love to hang out.

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I have more pretty shots of these butterfly species for another post.

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