Exploring Around London - mid-August

Another quiet week and hard to find many things.  Here are some photos from last week.  It has been very hot and humid lately.  Some flycatchers are being seen now.

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Turkey Vulture

Silver-spotted Skipper

Common Ringlet

Olive-sided Flycatcher

Green Heron

Willow Flycatcher

Ruby Meadowhawk ?

Eastern Pondhawk

A Quiet Week

It has been a quiet week trying to find birds, butterflies and dragonflies.  It was very hot and muggy for a few days and also had rain.  

Gray Catbird

Double-crested Cormorant

I went to Greenway Park again to check on the Ospreys.  

At Hyde Park, the water is too high for shorebirds right now. I saw lots of Mallards in the water and a Great Blue Heron.  Around the pond area were Blue Jays, Cedar Waxwings, Northern Flickers, American Goldfinch, Northern Cardinal and some Song Sparrows.  

There were Cabbage Whites, the odd Monarch, Clouded Sulphurs and I saw an Orange Sulphur.   

Northern Crescent

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Common Whitetail

Hopefully, things will start to pick up soon

Last Week Findings

I was out at Westminster Ponds earlier this week.  The Barn Swallows were flying around catching bugs at the pond.  I also saw a Great Blue Heron, Downy Woodpeckers, American Goldfinches, Song Sparrows, Red-winged Blackbirds, Turkey Vultures, and Mourning Doves.

Barn Swallow

Midland Painted Turtle

Butterflies were hard to find...a few Wild Indigo Duskywings, Eastern Tailed-Blues and one Monarch.  

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Eastern Tailed-Blue

At Cantebury Park, I saw 3 Great Blue Herons. One was in the water fishing and the other two were in the trees.  

Red-winged Blackbird  (female)

At the Hyde Park Pond, there were a few Cabbage Whites, a Viceroy and some Clouded Sulphurs.

Cabbage White

Viceroy

Clouded Sulphur

Violet Dancer

One day, I went to the Uplands North Wetland.  I have not been there since the Spring.  I love Great Blue Herons.  There were two Green Herons, too.  

Green Heron

Pleasant Birding Days

It was a nice pleasant week weather wise.  A little cooler which I like. Here are some birds I saw through the week. 

Red-tailed Hawk

Eastern Kingbird

At the Coves, a few Great Egrets have been hanging around and always Great Blue Herons.  

Mourning Dove

Common  Grackle

I enjoy watching this Osprey family.

At Greenway Park, I saw my FOY Double-crested Cormorant.  I usually see them every month through the summer at Thames River and the Coves.  This year, I have not seen any until July 31.

I'm still not seeing many butterflies or even dragonflies.  

Common Whitetail (female)

Summer Azure