Susan's Birding and Nature Blog: Northern Pearly-eye

Sunday, 6 July 2025

Birds and a Few Insects - First Week of July 2025

First week of July. Here are some photos of birds I saw. I also saw Catbirds, Savannah Sparrows, Red-eyed Vireos, Field Sparrows, Eastern Bluebirds, Pine Warblers, Cedar Waxwings, Eastern Meadowlarks, Common Yellowthroat, Spotted Sandpiper, Barn Swallows, Ospreys, Red-tailed Hawks, Song Sparrows, Yellow Warblers, Double-crested Cormorants, and Killdeers.

Grasshopper Sparrow

Northern Mockingbird

American White Pelican

Great Egret

Great Blue Heron

American Goldfinch

I found a few butterflies this week....not so many dragonflies..some Common Whitetails and a couple of Halloween Pennants.

Northern Pearly-Eye

- Saw lots of Common Wood-Nymphs

Common Wood-Nymph

Clouded Sulphur

Halloween Pennant

Saturday, 6 July 2019

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.