I love your photos! Do you know what the greenish stuff is on the butterfly? Perhaps it is pollen?
I've been trying to figure that out. I will ask some of my butterfly people.
My friend as North Jersey Butterfly Association says they are scales on the thorax.
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These include the Eagles nest about 1 mile south of Bulls Island and my first butterfly of the season. Duck, is a female Wood Duck./