Have you seen ducks or geese returning north this spring? It won’t be long now, because I saw the season’s first butterfly today, March 15. Snowshoeing up the Wiedmer’s driveway Lisa and I found a Green Comma sitting on the snow, wings outspread, desperately hoping its wing muscles would warm up enough to fly back to the gravelly cutbank it must have flown from. Under … Continue reading Eklutna Valley butterflies: An updated list