seaheart88's Identifications

With Valeri Ponzo; we were driving separately from Miami as part of the Fairchild Tropical Gardens Birding Festival field trip to the hawkwatch at Curry Hammock State Park.

We stopped at Key Largo first, where we found a Schaus's Swallowtail (!), one of I think only 5 individuals known in Florida in 2013. I got one quick photo of the underside, but Val knew to look at the upperside for the extra yellow bar on the forewings, which she saw. A lifer!

We got much better photographs 22 Jun 2019: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/92623529

With Valeri Ponzo, Jon Greenlaw, Wes Biggs, Paul Sykes, and others. A birding trip en route to Key West for a planned three-day trip to Dry Tortugas National Park. We stayed on the boat for two days and one night before the trip was cancelled due to an impending tropical storm. This was the most frustrating and disappointing birding trip of my life.

A lifer for Val and me, but we didn't realize it because neither of us was yet into butterflies.