High Gate Ranch Tour 2016-09-11

Last Sunday afternoon Hill Country Conservancy took its EPIC group on a tour of its first conservation easement property, the High Gate Ranch just south of Dripping Springs. What a beautiful property! The land was lush from the uncharacteristically wet August we've had. Here are a couple especially scenic spots:

From these high spots we got to see waves of American Snout butterflies migrating southeast-ish. I read that this species' migration is not so regular. It's often based on population explosions, and the migration is more often away from these high population areas than just south in the fall and north in the spring. I got this photo of one of them that stopped. You can see where the common name comes from!

Here's my eBird list.
Here are my photos on Flicker.
And attached are my iNaturalist observations.

Posted on Σεπτέμβριος 13, 2016 1213 ΠΜ by mikaelb