Findings Last Week of July 2023

I went to a few places in London, Ontario to see what I can find.  A nice variety of things.

Turkey Vulture

It's getting a little crowded.

Northern Map Turtles and Spiny Softshells

I was at the Coves the other morning.  The mosquitoes are still bad.  I saw this beautiful Great Blue Heron...quickly got some pictures as the mosquitoes were buzzing around my head and face.

At Greenway, I didn't see to many butterflies but it was nice to see this Garter Snake.  This is the 3rd Garter Snake I've seen this summer. The snakes were at least 2ft long or more.  I did see another endangered/threatened snake species earlier this summer.  I did not see one snake last year.

This is the time of year to look for shorebirds.

Greater Yellowlegs

Today at Kains Woods ESA, I saw a few Monarchs, Cabbage Whites, Common Wood Nymphs and one Eastern Tiger Swallowtail.

Belted Kingfisher

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Monarch

Bald Eagle

I can't believe we are into August tomorrow,

Roaming Around London Area

London Area - Week of July 16-22, 2023

Some different wildlife I saw this past week.  A nice variety of things.

Midland Painted Turtle

Northern Leopard Frog

Grasshopper and Bee

Great Blue Heron

Monarch

American Goldfinch

Butterfly Milkweed

Monarch

Monarch

Willow Flycatcher

Midland Painted Turtles

Northern Leopard Frog

Wet and Buggy

Just a short blog this week as four days I didn't go out birding...so nothing much to report.

Lots of Painted Turtles catching some sun first part of last week.  We had a lot of rain - heavy downpours lately so Thames River is very high.  No rocks are showing to look for more turtles.  

Mourning Dove

Today I went to the Coves.  The mosquitoes were really bad so I didn't spend as much time there as I hoped.  It was hard taking photos with mosquitoes buzzing around my head. 

Catbird

Lots of adult and juvenile robins around.

Family of Northern Flickers - There were 5 together

Findings - First Week of July

July 2023

I was able to find some butterflies through the week.  There was not a lot...one has to really look for them.

Common Wood-Nymph

This Painted Turtle was walking across the parking lot from the Cove pond so I watched and protected it to make sure it arrived at the other side to in a small pond.

Little Wood Satyr

First Monarch of the season!

Monarch

Some other findings.

Northern Crescent

American Goldfinch

Common Whitetail

Bluet species

Eastern Amberwing