Point Pelee Leps

For Canada Day, I went down to Point Pelee to look at butterflies.  It was a nice day and a few butterflies were out and about.  I had hoped for some rare immigrant or stray, but that was a longshot.  It looks like a good year for some immigrants such as Little Yellow.  I had five today.  The first Little Yellow was south of the solar panel. I had another on West Beach trail later on, and three south of North West Beach parking lot.

Red Admirals were in huge numbers, most heading north.  When I arrived at 08:00 I briefly stopped at the Old Admin area and noted many Red Admirals just going north.  The same thing was happening on West Beach Trail south of West Beach parking lot.  I probably saw 200 Red Admirals!

At one spot on the trail there were a number a butterflies around a Chinquapin Oak.  One was a Wood Nymph which is becoming rather uncommon in the park.  This spot south of the parking lot is reliable to find them.

Lots of Question Marks were out as well.

The only hairstreak was a Banded south of NW beach.

The only skippers were Silver-spotted and a Northern Broken Dash off the Old Admin area.
A few Hackberry Emperors were around.  These were the first I had seen this year.