Butterfly field trip March 17 or 18

[Randy Emmitt <birdcr@concentric.net>]

I`m leading or co leading a trip if Harry LeGrand can make it on either 
March 17th or 18th depending on good weather to the Richmond County section 
of the Sandhills Gamelands all are welcome to come along. I`ll be focusing 
on photography a good bit and we`ll probably be moving fairly slow if the 
butterflies pose for the cameras. After we hit this huge patch of wild 
plums in full bloom we`ll be looking for the rare Brown Elfin, I know it 
might be easy in Weymouth Woods(17 already reported last sunday) Paint Hill 
tract, but hopefully we`ll get lucky and find a new colony maybe.

If the weather isn`t good enough for butterflies we`ll be looking for 
birds, herps and wild flowers. We always look for these anyway on Carolina 
Butterfly Society field trips anyway. This will be the first Carolina 
Butterfly Society trip of 2001. So far we have 8-12 people coming along and 
members or non members are always welcome. To see the 2001 trips schedule 
go to http://www.carolinabutterflysociety.org/calendar2001.htm

The goodies that should be out would be Great Purple Hairstreak, Brown 
Elfin, Henry`s Elfin, Eastern Pine Elfin and White-M Hairstreak just to 
name a few of the easier to photograph butterflies. Last year I went out to 
the Sandhills Gamelands and Weymouth Woods on March 15th here`s some photos 
from that trip I did real good finding lots of butterflies everywhere I went.

Please E mail me at birdcr@concentric.net with "March trip" in the header 
or call at 919 810 0910 cell or home at 919 732 6734

Randy Emmitt
Rougemont, NC

Randy Emmitt Photography
http://www.rlephoto.com
Carolina Butterfly Society webmaster
http://www.carolinabutterflysociety.org/