{"id":21400,"date":"2024-05-03T08:39:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T15:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21400"},"modified":"2024-05-03T08:50:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T15:50:22","slug":"2024-may-3-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21400","title":{"rendered":"2024 May 3 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 May 3 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Note to photographers.<\/strong>\u00a0 If you work from a PC, and if it is convenient for you, please send photographs to Invert Alert <strong><u>as an attachment and as a .jpg or .jpeg extension<\/u>.<\/strong><em>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>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.\u00a0 I think there are just two contributors working from a Mac at the moment.\u00a0 Please continue to do what you at present do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes, May 2:A visit to Maber Flats revealed early afternoon at 1.15pm,<br \/>\n<strong>1 Mourning Cloak<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>6 Cabbage Whites<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>1 Western Spring Azure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At Gore Park, there were at 1.10pm<br \/>\n<strong>5 Western Spring Azures<br \/>\n1 Cabbage White\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At Mount Tolmie at 5.30pm,<br \/>\n<strong>1 California Tortoiseshell,<\/strong> a brief put down on the reservoir and then disappeared<br \/>\nA <strong>Painted Lady<\/strong> that settled briefly on my sleeve and was then \u00a0gone.<br \/>\n1 <strong>Western Spring Azure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There was one <strong>dragonfly<\/strong>, hanging \u00a0off 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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aziza Cooper writes:<\/p>\n<p>May 2, there was a <strong>dragonfly<\/strong> and a <strong>California Tortoiseshell<\/strong> at the reservoir on Mount Tolmie at about 6 pm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 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). \u00a0\u00a0It looks as if Marie and Aziza have found the same individual!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21399 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/A-Dragonfly-Mt-Tolmie-1b-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/A-Dragonfly-Mt-Tolmie-1b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/A-Dragonfly-Mt-Tolmie-1b.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/>California Darner <em>Rhionaeschna californica <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21397 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/dragon-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/dragon-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/dragon.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/>California Darner <em>Rhionaeschna californica <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21398 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/A-Bfly-CA-T-Shell-Mt-Tolmie-1-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/A-Bfly-CA-T-Shell-Mt-Tolmie-1-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/A-Bfly-CA-T-Shell-Mt-Tolmie-1-1024x629.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/A-Bfly-CA-T-Shell-Mt-Tolmie-1-768x472.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/A-Bfly-CA-T-Shell-Mt-Tolmie-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/strong>California Tortoiseshell <em>Nymphalis californica\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21396 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2W1A5849-5-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"317\" 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