Findings End of July 2025

Around London, some animals and butterflies I saw.

Cabbage White

Tawny Emperor

Viceroy

Red-spotted Purple

Red-spotted Purple

Eastern Tailed Blue

Giant Swallowtail

Late June Birding - 2025

Indigo Bunting

Brown Thrasher

Cedar Waxwing & Northern Flicker

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Baltimore Oriole

I saw some butterflies last week.  Lots of Cabbage Whites, European Skipper, Little Wood Satyr and a Hackberry Emperor which I don't see often.  

European Skipper

Hackberry Emperor

Little Wood Satyr

Today, I saw my first Eastern tailed-Blue.

Lots of newly fledged Barn Swallows waiting for food.

FInally Some Butterflies and Dragonflies

 Medway Valley and Hyde Park Areas

Medway Creek is a tributary of the Thames River.  I found a Smallmouth Bass...close to 1ft long and also lots of smaller fish probably minnows.

I finally have seen some dragonflies this last week of June.  I believe this one is a Powdered Dancer.

Powdered Dancer

Little Wood Satyr

Oxeye Daisy

European Skipper

I'm seeing more Cabbage Whites again.

Staghorn Sumac

Black-eyed Susan

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Butterfly Milkweed

I'm not sure what the next dragonfly is.  Maybe a female of some species. 

Twelve-spotted Skimmer

I saw a nice size Garter Snake but it was too quick to get a photo.

Recent Outings - Final Week of June 2021

 Week of June 28, 2021

While birding as I mentioned before I'm looking for butterflies, too.  I got my first Eastern Tailed-Blue in Hyde Park.  Sulphurs are starting to appear as I saw a couple of Clouded Sulphurs.  I also saw first of the year Common Wood Nymph.  There were lots of them flying around this week.

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Silver-spotted Skipper

Cabbage White

Common Wood Nymph

I was delighted to see the Black-crowned Night Heron.  They are very hard to find in the trees behind all the leaves.  They are a smaller heron, a little bigger than a Green Heron.  They are stocky with short legs.  There are a pair at the Coves..... with one baby maybe two.

Black-crowned Night Heron

Here are some other photos I took this week.

Great Blue Heron

American Robin

Song Sparrow

Mallard with her ducklings

Midland Painted Turtle

Exploring around London

August 19, 2020 - Killaly Meadows ESA, London, Ontario

I went to Killaly Meadows this morning.  I have not been there for awhile. Lots of young robins around.  I have not seen any Fall warblers yet.  There were lots of American Goldfinches, Cedar Waxwings, Northern Cardinals and Mallards.  I watched a family of House Wrens.  The adults feeding their young.  I heard Red-eyed Vireos, Eastern Wood Pewees and Carolina Wrens.  

American Robin

Elony Jewelwing

Viceroy

House Wren

August 20, 2020 - Hyde Park, London

Not many birds today...there were just seven Mallards in the pond.  I saw a Double-crested Cormorant flyover, Ring-bill Gull, Osprey and Blue Jays.  I was also looking for butterflies.  Lots of Cabbage Whites, Viceroys, a Monarch, Northern Crescents, and some Yellow Sulphurs.

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Eastern Tailed-Blue

A few Turkey Vultures were circling around.

I  hope next week I can find some warblers!