Pleasant Day in Hyde Park

I went to the Hyde Park Drainage Pond this morning to look for butterflies...a nice pleasant day 20c, sunny. 
At the pond, this Mallard had a number of ducklings swimming with her.  There seems to be about 12-14 of them.

I saw 2 Cabbage Whites and about a dozen Northern Crescents flying around.  That's all the butterflies I saw.

Northern Crescent

Spotted Sandpiper

Wild Geranium

Northern Flicker

I watched a little rabbit munching away on grass.

Some Weekend Sightings

It's getting more difficult to get photos of birds so I'm taking more of flowers, dragonflies and butterflies.  I've seen many butterflies but they are not landing for me to take photos. 

 I'm seeing more dragonflies and a few damselflies (bluets).

Meadow Anemone

Killdeer

Robin's-Plantain

Clover

Bird's Foot Trefoil

Clover

Tufted Vetch

This dragonfly was flying around so I tried to get a photo of it.....it's a large  dragonfly.  This is the best photo I can get.

Strolling the Parks

Westminster Ponds, ESA, London, Ontario

June 3, 2019 - I haven't been to Westminster Ponds for awhile so I decided to go this morning.  It was clear with a nice  breeze.  I walked the boardwalk to where the trails start.  The trails were quite muddy so I went back and walked the south side of the ponds until again where the trails started it was muddy.  There is a little walkout at Saunders Pond.  I always see swallows, flycatchers, turtles, etc.  There were families of Canada Geese, Tree Swallows, Red-winged Blackbirds, Song Sparrows, House Wrens and an Eastern Phoebe.

Canada Geese with goslings

Baltimore Oriole

Baltimore Oriole  (female)

Eastern Phoebe

Buttercup  sp.

Aster  Sp. 

Midland Painted Turtle

Greenway Park

June 4, 2019 - The wild flowers are beautiful along Thames River.

Eastern Kingbird

Dame's Rocket

Dame's Rocket

Dame's Rocket