Training Log Archive: TomN

Easy run around GSFC perimeter road. The air warmed up rapidly as I was going around, and the sun came out. A beautiful afternoon. The hot water is out in our building so it was either a cold shower or a paper towel wipe down. (The wipe down, of course. It didn't get that hot.)

FOY lepidoptera (at GSFC) -- almost certainly an Eastern Comma (given the topside coloration it could hardly be anything else), but I didn't get a very good view. If it was a Comma, it was a pretty small individual, which may be normal for these overwintering adults. Unlike almost every other kind of butterfly, they emerge from the chrysalis in the fall and survive the winter, nestling in crevices in the bark of trees, emerging on occasional sunny days to mate (hopefully). This one was on the flat part of the dirt road just above the pond. It ended up on the outside of the fence where I couldn't chase it.