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(Here’s Jeff’s final post from Alaska, maybe the most impressive for butterfly pictures! Above is a male Eversmann’s Parnassian, on Eagle Summit. – ed)
Sunday, June 16. Today, the thought is to try for better photos – of Astarte Fritillaries, Polaris Fritillaries, Eversmann’s Parnassians and others.
female Eversmann’s Parnassian
When I arrive at Eagle Summit it’s slightly colder than yesterday, 51 degrees vs 52 degrees, but the sky is blue and sunny and there’s little, if any, wind. A perfect day! I wended my way to the rockslide area.
Magdalena Alpine
I spent about three hours amongst the rocks, trying to stand up on the steep slopes. A few Bolorian blowbys might well have been Astartes, but I didn’t see any that I was sure of. As a consolation prize, at least three Magdalena Alpines cruised the rockslides and, on a few occasions, landed close enough to me to enable reasonable photos. A Melissa Arctic landed near me and added another species to this trip.
Melissa Arctic
At about 1 pm, the winds picked up considerably and I decided to call it a day. I had succeeded in obtaining identifiable photos of my three targets, Taiga Alpine, Early Arctic and Astarte Fritillary. Plus, I had the bonus butterfly, ‘Tanana’ Chryxus Arctic. Back in Fairbanks, I was able to switch my plane flights and fly out tonight. Mission accomplished – at least this part of it.
Banded Alpinefemale Eversmann’s Parnassian
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(Pictured above, Alpine Forget-me-nots near Eagle Summit – ed)
Saturday, June 15.
It was overcast in Fairbanks when I awoke. The weather report for Circle, AK, about 50
miles east of Eagle Summit, was the closest information that I could find, and
the prediction was for mostly cloudy skies and some rain. So, I had a choice, stay in Fairbanks in the
clouds and rain, or drive to Eagle Summit and hope the weather folks were
wrong. No offense intended weather
folks, but I headed for Eagle Summit.
It was good that I did because I saw some wildlife on the
way. There was a snowshoe hare, a red
fox, a vole and most excitingly, a caribou (reindeer are the domesticated
version of this species – that’s why Santa Claus’ sleigh team are reindeers) –
the first I’ve ever seen. It was a young
un, without antlers (almost), but hey, it was still a caribou! You may be thinking, how do you know that it
was a young caribou (other than the fact that it pranced – I didn’t tell you
about that)? Turns out the caribous
(including reindeer, of course) are the only species of deer whose females also
have antlers. Good to know. The photo isn’t so great, but keep in mind
that it was taken from a long distance with a macro lens intended for
butterflies!
Five miles from the base of Eagle Summit the temperature was
59 degrees – and it was sunny with limited wind! By the time that I reached the
Eagle Summit pullout, it was 52 degrees.
But it was still sunny without too much wind. I began walking and climbing. For the first time, I was confronted with clouds of some type of gnat-like
fly. It was literally impossible to
breath without inhaling some of the flies with the air. The flies made the half hour or so
walk/climb/scramble to the rockslides very unpleasant. However, I was buoyed by sightings of Banded
Alpines, Reddish Alpines, many Polaris Fritillaries and the most Eversmann’s
Parnassians I had ever seen. A little
worn out, I eventually made it to the rockslides. And then, the flies disappeared!
Astarte Fritillary!
I wasn’t there too long before an oxymoronic large lesser fritillary flew in and landed not too far from me. A ran off a series of photos, then tried to walk around so that I would have a better angle. I partly succeeded when the Bolorian decided that enough was enough, and away it went. Astarte Fritillaries are larger than other are other species of lesser fritillaries, there’s a known colony here at Eagle Summit and they’re found on rockslides – so, an Astarte Fritillary! But wait, you say, you’ve seen this movie before. Glassberg gets excited, looks at the photos, and realizes that he’s seen a more common species in the genus. Good for you! But not this time! This time, it actually was an Astarte Fritillary. The photo of the upperside isn’t great, but useable. Unfortunately the underside photo that I got is pretty woeful. I’ll come back tomorrow to try for better shots.
Can you spot it?
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