Mourning Cloak – First of year!

Posted on March 22, 2014 by admin

What do you get when 67% of the days over the last three months have been below normal (including three nights below zero) and have had 61 inches of snow? You get the amazing first of year, tattered Mourning Cloak (Nymphalis antiopa) which has survived those conditions and was found basking on the road at Sleepy Creek WMA in Berkeley county on Saturday the 22nd. This was the warmest day of the season so far and a harbinger of things to come. We’ve had enough already, so after the snow predicted for the 25th let’s commence with Spring please?
Mourning Cloak - Nymphalis antiopa

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3 Responses to Mourning Cloak – First of year!

  1. Sharon Kearns says:
    March 24, 2014 at 3:16 pm

    I had a FOY Mourning Cloak yesterday. It flew up while I was cleaning out multiflora rose by the big pond. I had a couple of other too quick to follow fellows too.

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  2. jm says:
    March 24, 2014 at 5:27 pm

    I saw two Mourning Cloaks on Friday, March 21 while hiking the Heavner’s Grove Trail at Stonewall Jackson Lake State Park! A wonderful sight for winter weary eyes!

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  3. birdmom says:
    April 9, 2014 at 4:34 am

    I saw two Mourning Cloaks in Grant County, WV while driving some back roads looking for birds. Also saw a Spring Azure on April 6 in Jefferson County, WV at the historic Claymont mansion property.

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