Category: Field Trips
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2022 WBA Field Trips
2020 Field Trip Schedule (Subject to Change [now more than ever!]) Our fingers are crossed for a grand 2022 field trip season. WBA will continue to monitor and adapt to COVID- 19 levels and guidelines for our state. Trip leaders will notify participants if any changes should occur. May 7: Oak Creek Widlife Area…
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Gold Creek Pond Flash Field Trip
Washington Butterfly Association late summer field trip to Gold Creek Pond near Hyak, WA. Saw only a dozen or so butterflies, mostly flying and not alighting and nectaring. Sept 10 2021. Al Wagar WBA Member, Former WBA Board President & Photographer/Videographer
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2020 WBA Field Trips
Note: All Field Trips Canceled for 2020. Early Reecer Canyon, April 18, rain date April 25 Melanie Weiss We will look for early eclosures and species that overwinter as adults: Mourning Cloak, Hoary Comma, Green Comma, California Tortoiseshell, Sheridan’s Hairstreak, Brown Elfin, Moss’s Elfin. We may not be able to go very far up Reecer…
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Flash Field Trip – Stevens Creek, Lookout Pass Area, Idaho
Spokane members of the Washington Butterfly Association have been treated to sightings of some of the rarest and most geographically restricted of the state’s butterflies in recent years: the Astarte Fritillary, the Yuma Skipper and the Silver Bordered Fritillary to name a few. If you’re up for a challenging five mile hike 90 minutes’ drive…
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2019 WBA Field Trips
Date Destination/Description Difficulty Trip Leader April 6 Schnebley Coulee, Vantage. The traditional season-opening hunt for Sheridan’s Hairstreaks and other early-season shrub-steppe butterflies. 1 John Baumann April 13 Hog Lake and Folsom Farm, Spokane 3 Sue Orlowski April 26 Yakima Training Center. We will return at an earlier date than last year to get more of…
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Upper Crab Creek-Rocky Road Field Trip Report
Aug. 25, 2018 David James led the last WBA field trip of the season to upper Crab Creek- Rocky Ford, a site we had first visited in early June. It was a bit cool, and the sky was hazy with smoke! But we were a hardy lot and set out across the dry scablands in…
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WBA – Field Trip: Chumstick Annual Fourth of July Butterfly Count
Eagle & Van Creek areas of Chumstick Mountain near Leavenworth WA. We got scrambled and didn’t make it to the mountain. July 7 2018. Al Wagar WBA Member, Former WBA Board President & Photographer/Videographer
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2018 WBA Field Trips
Date Destination/Description Difficulty Trip Leader/Contact April 21 Cowiche Canyon. A joint Cowiche Canyon Conservancy/ Washington Butterfly Association Earth Day Hike . 2 David James May 12 Glacial Heritage Preserve, Thurston County. Annual Prairie Appreciation Day (Center for Natural Lands Management). An opportunity to see early spring butterflies on the prairie. 1-2 prairieapprecia- tionday.org May 12…
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WBA Field Trip Report: Bethel Ridge 2017
On August 5th, a large group of WBA members gathered in an 8-car caravan to drive up Bethel Ridge east of White Pass. The area was still enveloped in Canadian wildfire smoke, so the promised views of Rainier, Adams and Rimrock Lake were invisible. But, the butterflies were not deterred so neither were we. We…
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WBA Field Trip Report: Swakane Canyon June 2017
On June 17th, 16 WBA members visited Swakane Canyon on a field trip led by Dave Nunnallee. The weather wasn’t ideal, nor was the rough canyon road, but the butterflies were spectacular. All the rain this winter blessed us with a bounty of water in the area, which meant large numbers of butterflies were puddling…
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WBA Field Trip to Snow Mountain Ranch
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy butterfly walk , Univ of Washington biology class, & Washington Butterfly Association tagging effort. Near Cowiche, WA. Tagging was intended for Coronis Fritillaries, which hadn’t yet emerged due to late spring. So, tagging was only a demo. May 20 2017 Al Wagar WBA Member, Former WBA Board President & Photographer/Videographer
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WBA Field trip : Earth Day At Cowiche Canyon
Short video focused more on butterflies than the other stations. No butterflies till about noon, then a few Lucia Blues, Becker’s Whites, and a Mourning Cloak. April 22, 2017. Al Wagar WBA Member, Former WBA Board President & Photographer/Videographer
