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| List: Carolina-Leps Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:18:36 -0400 From: Harry LeGrand (via carolinaleps Mailing List) <carolinaleps...> Subject: Re: Great Purple Hairstreak in Hillsborough 8/22 |
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--000000000000226466063cfd4426 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Nice and rare record for most of the NC Piedmont. I'm posting here to let folks know she has already posted her beautiful photo to iNaturalist, where it didn't take long for someone to vet it as Research Grade -- me in this case. So, the record is now in a global database. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/308230751 Harry LeGrand Raleigh On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 6:59=E2=80=AFPM "Lior Carlson (Backyard Butterflies= )" < <carolinaleps...> wrote: > Hello Fellow Butterfliers, > > I was contacted today by our Board member, Tammy Dorfman, to confirm the > ID of a butterfly she photographed in her yard in Hillsborough this > afternoon. As you may have guessed by the subject header, she observed a > Great Purple Hairstreak. > > After my initial SQUEE, I then told her if only it had shown up during th= e > Orange County NABA count, but that I'd do the next best thing which is > share with y'all her sighting. > > Here's a link to the photo she sent me: https://flic.kr/p/2rp3vk6 > > Kindly, > Lior > > > *Lior S. Carlson (they/them)* > *Executive Director* > 919.241.7865 (text only) > <lior...> > http://www.backyardbutterflies.org/ > > > --000000000000226466063cfd4426 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Nice and rare record for most of the NC Piedmont.=C2= =A0 I'm posting here to let folks know she has already posted her beaut= iful photo to iNaturalist, where it didn't take long for someone to vet= it as Research Grade -- me in this case.=C2=A0 So, the record is now in a = global database.</div><div><br></div><div><a href=3D"https://www.inaturalis= t.org/observations/308230751" originalSrc=3D"https://www.inaturalist.org/ob= servations/308230751">https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/308230751</a= ></div><div><br></div><div>Harry LeGrand</div><div>Raleigh</div></div><br><= div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"g= mail_attr">On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 6:59=E2=80=AFPM "Lior Carlson (Back= yard Butterflies)" <<a href=3D"mailto:<carolinaleps...>">caroli= <naleps...></a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" s= tyle=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);pad= ding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Hello Fellow Butterfliers,</div><div><= br></div><div>I was contacted today by our Board member, Tammy Dorfman, to = confirm the ID of a butterfly she photographed in her yard in Hillsborough = this afternoon. As you may have guessed by the subject header, she observed= a Great Purple Hairstreak.</div><div><br></div><div>After my initial SQUEE= , I then told her if only it had shown up during the Orange County NABA cou= nt, but that I'd do the next best thing which is share with y'all h= er sighting.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's a link to the photo she se= nt me:=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://flic.kr/p/2rp3vk6" originalSrc=3D"https://fl= ic.kr/p/2rp3vk6" target=3D"_blank">https://flic.kr/p/2rp3vk6</a></div><div>= <br></div><div>Kindly,</div><div>Lior</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><d= iv><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_signature"><div dir=3D"ltr"><font face= =3D"georgia, serif" color=3D"#674ea7"><b>Lior S. Carlson (they/them)</b></f= ont><div><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><i>Executive Director</i></font></di= v><div>919.241.7865 (text only)</div><div><a href=3D"mailto:lior@backyardbu= tterflies.org" target=3D"_blank"><lior...></a></div><div= ><a href=3D"http://www.backyardbutterflies.org/" originalSrc=3D"http://www.= backyardbutterflies.org/" target=3D"_blank">www.backyardbutterflies.org</a>= </div><div><br></div><div><img src=3D"https://www.backyardbutterflies.org/w= p-content/uploads/2024/06/cropped-Backyard-Butterflies-Circular-Logo-1.png"= width=3D"200" height=3D"200"><br></div></div></div></div></div> </blockquote></div> --000000000000226466063cfd4426-- |
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