2024 May 3 morning

   Note to photographers.  If you work from a PC, and if it is convenient for you, please send photographs to Invert Alert as an attachment and as a .jpg or .jpeg extension.   If you send it in some other form, I can sometimes figure out how to handle it, but I am not a computer expert, and it may take me quite a long while to do so.  I think there are just two contributors working from a Mac at the moment.  Please continue to do what you at present do.

  Marie O’Shaughnessy writes, May 2:A visit to Maber Flats revealed early afternoon at 1.15pm,
1 Mourning Cloak
6 Cabbage Whites
1 Western Spring Azure

At Gore Park, there were at 1.10pm
5 Western Spring Azures
1 Cabbage White 

At Mount Tolmie at 5.30pm,
1 California Tortoiseshell, a brief put down on the reservoir and then disappeared
A Painted Lady that settled briefly on my sleeve and was then  gone.
1 Western Spring Azure.

There was one dragonfly, hanging  off a cone high up in a fir tree near the Jeffrey Pine at the summit of Mt. Tolmie. It was basking in the late afternoon sun.

Aziza Cooper writes:

May 2, there was a dragonfly and a California Tortoiseshell at the reservoir on Mount Tolmie at about 6 pm.

Jeremy Tatum writes:  Although there have been a few reports of Pacific Forktail damselflies this year, this is the first report we have received of a true dragonfly (Suborder Anisoptera).   It looks as if Marie and Aziza have found the same individual!

California Darner Rhionaeschna californica (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Aziza Cooper

California Darner Rhionaeschna californica (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Aziza Cooper

Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy