Here’s a few things that you might see out in Explore the Wild and Catch the Wind on a walk around the loop.
A male Zabulon Skipper, a butterfly, sips nectar from one of the tubular flowers on the ping pong ball-sized cluster of flowers of Buttonbush.Evidence that a Downy Woodpecker has tried, successfully it appears, to extract Carpenter Bee larvae from a 2 x 12 in Catch the Wind. The neat round hole is the bee’s work.A Common Grackle hunts among the willows in the Wetlands for tadpoles, fish, or small frogs.The tracks of a slider show where the turtle has been and where it’s going.A Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle rests on the seed pod of Butterfly Weed in Catch the Wind.And later the same day….An Eastern Amberwing and a Common Whitetail, both males, share a perch in the Wetlands.
And finally, look who showed up!
A Great Egret dropped in on August 8 but only stayed with us for about an hour.
Was this the same Great Egret that stayed with us for several months last winter?
I love the butterfly / Buttonbush photo!! It’s stunning!!
Thank you, Stephanie.