{"id":14946,"date":"2021-09-17T15:40:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T22:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14946"},"modified":"2021-09-17T15:46:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T22:46:49","slug":"2021-september-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14946","title":{"rendered":"2021 September 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 September 17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; September Butterfly Count<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Message from Gordon Hart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Hello, Butterfly Enthusiasts ,<\/p>\n<p>The September count period starts Saturday, September 18 until Sunday, September 26. This is an informal census of butterfly numbers and species in Greater Victoria. The area is defined by the Christmas Bird Count circle, extending from Victoria to Brentwood Bay and Island View Road in Central Saanich, and west to Happy Valley and Triangle Mountain, and Langford Lake and Goldstream areas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can submit a count any time over the count period, just use a separate form for each count and location. In the case of repeat or duplicate counts, I will use the higher numbers. To submit counts, please use the form on the VNHS website at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=33\">https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=33<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have difficulty with the form, please send me an email with the information.<\/p>\n<p>There are not many butterflies around now, but there is a chance of some interesting sightings. This past week <strong>American Lady<\/strong> and <strong>Grey Hairstreak<\/strong> have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>Thank-you for submitting your sightings and good luck with your count.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Gordon Hart,<\/p>\n<p>Butterfly Count Coordinator,<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Natural History Society<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; &nbsp;Today is a rainy day, and as of 3:40 pm no reports or photos of invertebrates have been received.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you have any to submit later today, send them in as usual &ndash; though they probably won&rsquo;t be posted until tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 September 17 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; September Butterfly Count &nbsp;&nbsp; Message from Gordon Hart &nbsp;Hello, Butterfly Enthusiasts , The September count period starts Saturday, September 18 until Sunday, September 26. This is an informal census of butterfly numbers and species in Greater Victoria. The area is defined by the Christmas Bird Count circle, extending from Victoria to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}