Butterfly observations at Sinhagad valley Pune 19.01.2020

Today 19.01.2020 once again I decided to visit Sinhagad valley. So based on last Sunday's experience I had my breakfast at home with family 😊 and left for valley around 9:30 am. I was lucky enough to get a direct share auto from Nanded City main gate to Sinhagad Paytha. I reached around 10:15 am.
As my stomach was already full so didn't waste any time and directly went to the valley. On the way I peeped in the garden where we had spotted the Peacock Royal last week, but it wasn't seen today morning. It seems Royal's arrive in the afternoon only 😊.

It was a normal sunny day today and not that cool so the butterflies had already started their routine work of basking and nectaring.
Today my observation started with a hedge blue. And slowly all the common species were seen around.
A huge patch of the Lantana plant which is seen in the farms in the valley is the main attraction for these butterflies. the grass yellows, Emigrants, Pansy's, Tigers and few Rare buddies can be spotted on this plant. The Lantana plant flowers is a good nectaring for the butterflies as well as few birds too.

There are few patches of farmland in the valley. In the last week we had spotted few butterfly species in the farms but today the scene was different. The farmers have started ploughing their farms and getting ready for the Rabi season due to which the tiny flowering plants/weeds have been removed from the farm. So few blue family butterflies were not spotted in this patch.
Today i was lucky to spot a new species - Abnormal Silverline.
I had visited the stream also where i spotted mud pudding activities too. I managed to see the Common Nawab today but unfortunately it had become a prey to the Indian Paradise Flycatcher bird.

Following is my list of today's butterfly observations at Sinhagad Valley Pune.

1. Common grass yellow
2. Common Jezebel
3. Common Mormon
4. Common Crow
5. Daniad eggfly (M&F)
6. Plain tiger
7. Stripped Tiger
8. Blue tiger
9. Glassy Tiger
10. Common emigrant
11. Mottled Emigrant
12. Zebra blue
13. Common Pierrot
14. Common castor
15. Common Rose
16. Skipper
17. Lemon pansy
18. Chocolate pansy
19. Grey pansy
20. Blue Pansy
21. Common Sailer
22. Common Cerulean
23. Common gull
24. Common Hedge blue
25. Common Fivering
26. Forget-me-not
27. Grass Demon
28. Common Nawab (killed)
29. Tiny grass blue
30. Wanderer
31. Peacock Royal
32. Dark Cerulean
33. Spotless grass yellow
34. Tailed Jay
35. Common Leopard
36. Painted Lady
37. Common evening brown
38. Great Eggfly
39. Slate Flash
40. Silverstreak blue - Male and female
41. Abnormal Silverline (new species)

All these observations will be uploaded on INAT within a day or two.

Pavan Damoor
Nature and Butterfly Lover, Pune

Publicado el enero 19, 2020 01:29 TARDE por pavandamoor