Hot Summer Days - July 2025

July 10, 2025, Komoka North

It was lovely seeing the Mute Swans this morning.  They have five young.  I saw a few Eastern Bluebirds, Catbirds, Northern House Wrens, Northern Flicker, Common Yellowthroats, Eastern Kingbirds, Great Egrets, Great Blue Herons, Wood Ducks, Barn Swallows, Northern Rough-winged Swallows, Belted Kingfisher, Field Sparrows, Song Sparrows, Killdeers, Spotted Sandpipers, Savannah Sparrows and an Osprey.

Not many butterflies and dragonflies - Common Wood-Nymphs, Little Wood Satyr, Cabbage Whites, Halloween Pennant, Widow Skimmers, Common Whitetails and Blue-fronted Dancers.

Mute Swans with 5 young

Eastern Kingbird

Northern Flicker

Eastern Bluebird

Blue-fronted Dancer

Widow Skimmer

July 12, 2025, Airport, Fanshawe Pond

At the airport, there were many Mourning Doves, adults and young and also many young starlings.  I saw an Osprey, Turkey Vulture, Barn Swallows, Eastern Meadowlarks, Grasshopper Sparrows, Savannah Sparrows, Song Sparrows, Red-winged Blackbirds, American Goldfinches, Killdeers, American Robins and Common Grackles.

The area of weeds and long grasses where I see some butterflies has been mowed down.

Mourning Dove

Savannah Sparrow

Oprey

Fanshawe Pond.  There were 2 Monarchs, Cabbage Whites, and lots of Common Whitetails.

Pied-billed Grebe

Short-billed Dowitchers

Searching Butterflies and Dragonflies - June 2022

This week, I've been concentrating on butterflies and dragonflies.  I found a few but are hard to find.  There is not an abundance of butterflies.  By far, the Cabbage Whites are the most common.  I've seen some Monarchs but not a lot.  On June 27, 2022, I went to Komoka to see what was around.

Common Ringlet

Silver-spotted Skipper

Little Wood Satyr

Powered Dancer

There are nesting Eastern Bluebirds in the nest boxes there.  

Westminster - June 28, 2022

Yellow Warbler

Here are some scenes of Westminster Ponds.

Gray Catbird

The Coves - June 30, 2022

Blue-fronted Dancer

Little Wood Satyr

Eastern Comma

Common Wood-Nymph

Variety of Wildlife Found July 1-5, 2019

I was out to different areas in London this past week.  I was mainly looking for butterflies and dragonflies.  I'm aware of the birds around me but I'm mainly concentrating on insects.  I'm finding it's not easy finding butterflies so far.  Some areas I didn't see any butterflies at all! 

Butterfly Milkweed

There was a long grassy area I was looking at when this huge raccoon came out and walked to the other side of the walkway and down to the river. It was huge!  Back looking around at the long grass area for butterflies....I turned to go back and there was a White-tailed Deer standing there staring at me!  It startled me!  The deer went on down to the river.  It was really nice seeing the raccoon and deer but found no butterflies.

Raccoon

White tailed Deer

Great Blue Heron

I look for flowers too.

Purple-flowered Raspberry

Chicory

Mallards

Eastern Pondhawk

The next two butterflies are lifers for me.

Little Wood Satyr

Northern Pearly-eye

I haven't seen too many Cabbage Whites so far.  I hope to find more butterflies this coming week.

Cabbage White

Common Ringlet

Painted Turtles

Blue Dasher

Northern Flicker

This is the only butterfly I'm seeing a lot of....Common Crescent.

Common Crescent

Widow Skimmer

Common Whitetail

Blue-fronted Dancer

Small Damselfly

Civic Gardens

It is a warm, sunny day, high of 22, humidex 25.  I went to see if I can find any butterflies.  I saw one Cabbage White.  So, I went for a walk at the west end of Springbank Park.  I found this damselfly on the walkway.

Blue-fronted Dancer