Hi Howie,
Because this was my first visit to High Park in search butterflies, I pretty much wandered the entire park. Most of my sightings were on the east side trails and that’s only because it was too early in the morning when I explored the west side trails, I’m sure. Also, because I’d never really travelled the trails before, I was comfortably lost from the word ‘go’. Sometimes that works out to be the best way – lol. The Northern Cloudywing butterflies were found everywhere along the edges of the woods.
As far as Rosetta McClain Gardens, it’s been very quiet lately from what I’ve been told (I’ve been everywhere but there over the past couple of weeks). Unfortunately, there are no Flickers nesting in the park this year that I know of, there was one pair that did try earlier in the spring but they moved on. I think the same will happen at Rosetta as at Edwards, that once the cone flowers start to bloom, the butterflies will start to show.
Hope this helps you,
Walter
