Findings - August 11-16, 2025

Exploring around London, I found some species of turtles and butterflies.

Spiny Softshell

Great Egrets and a Green Heron.

Great Egret

Green Heron

Great Egret

Peck's Skipper

Tawny-edged Skipper

Viceroy

Northern Crescent

Red-spotted Purple

End of August 2024 Findings

 I enjoyed watching 2 Green Herons one day.  Birding has been slow lately.

Juvenile Osprey

Komoka

Westminster Ponds

May Birding

 May 1-5, 2024

Bird migration has begun and it's fun to sort through all the birds one sees in the trees, bushes and water.  Here are some of my first birds for the month of May.

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Green Heron

Great Blue Heron

Green Heron

Yellow Warbler

Catbird

Song Sparrow

I saw this butterfly May 1, 2024 at Upland Trails in London, Ontario.  It's in the Holarctic Azures family.  First time seeing one.

More Birding at Wetlands

The first week of October 2023, I visited the wetlands in the area.  We had a short heat wave that week.

Great Egret

Pectoral Sandpiper

Greater Yellowlegs

Great Blue Heron

Yellow rumped Warbler

There were construction at the drainage storm water pond at Wonderland Rd S.  They are draining the water to clean the pond and do some drainage work.  Half the pond was drained and was excellent for shorebirds dropping by on the mudflats.  Lots of Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Killdeers, a Green Heron, and two Great Egrets.

Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs

Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs

Great Egrets

At Upland Wetland Pond, lots of blackbirds were there in the trees.  Red-winged Blackbirds, Rusty Blackbirds, Grackles, Brown-headed Blackbirds and Starlings.

The Great Egret is still hanging around.

Great Egret

American Coot

Great Blue Heron

Green winged Teals

Green Heron

Lesser Yellowlegs

Many Turkey Vultures were migrating through the first week of October.

Findings End of September 2023

This week, I went to the Coves and Uplands Wetland a couple of times.  Rusty Blackbirds, Red-winged Blackbirds, Brown-headed Cowbirds and Grackles are migrating through this area.  The trees would be covered with blackbirds and groups of them flying around.

Green Heron

Green Heron

I always enjoy watching Great Blue Herons and Green Herons.

Great Blue Heron

Killdeer

Rusty Blackbird

Sandpipers have been migrating too.

Solitary Sandpiper

Mourning Doves

It was a nice surprise to see an American Wigeon and a Northern Pintail at the wetlands.

American Wigeon

Northern Pintail

There are still some Great Egrets around.

Great Egret

Great Egret

A different day at Uplands Wetland, I still see Rusty Blackbirds, Red-winged Blackbirds, Turkey Vultures, some Green-winged Teals, Belted Kingfishers, Killdeers, lots of Blue Jays, Yellow-rumped Warblers and Palm Warblers.

Immature Green Heron

Eastern Phoebe

I was looking up at a woodpecker high in a tree when I came across this guy sleeping in a hole.