Insects - July 2025

Photos of some birds I've seen and I have been looking for butterflies and dragonflies which I have listed below. 

Komoka Park

Willow Skimmer, Powered Dancer, Blue-fronted Dancer, Clouded Sulphur, Cabbage Whites and one Monarch.

Indigo Bunting

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Coves

Widow Skimmer, Common Whitetail, Cabbage Whites, Ebony Jewelwing, and one Black Swallowtail

Also saw 1 White tailed Deer, Carolina Grasshopper - FOY, Painted Turtles, large Common Carp in the water.

Osprey trying to keep cool

Wood Ducks

Black Swallowtail

Westminster Ponds

Black Saddlebags - 1, Common Whitetails, Eastern Pondhawk - 1, Blue Dasher - 2, Monarchs - 8, Black Swallowtail - 1, Silver-spotted Skipper - 3, Wild Indigo Duskywing - 2, Common Wood Nymph - 2

Monarch

Indigo Duskywing

Black Swallowtail

Black Saddlebags

Eastern Pondhawk

Blue Dasher

Canterbury Park

Common Whitetails, Eastern Forktail - 1, Monarch - 1; Cabbage Whites - 5; Black Swallowtail - 1

Also saw a Painted Turtle

Painted Turtle

Monarch

Cabbage White

More Butterflies - July 2024

 Butterflies in Komoka 

Monarch

Orange Sulphur

Tawny Emperor

Question Mark

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Cabbage White

Viceroy

Red Admiral

Hackberry Emperor

Little Wood Satyr

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

A Quiet Week

It has been a quiet week trying to find birds, butterflies and dragonflies.  It was very hot and muggy for a few days and also had rain.  

Gray Catbird

Double-crested Cormorant

I went to Greenway Park again to check on the Ospreys.  

At Hyde Park, the water is too high for shorebirds right now. I saw lots of Mallards in the water and a Great Blue Heron.  Around the pond area were Blue Jays, Cedar Waxwings, Northern Flickers, American Goldfinch, Northern Cardinal and some Song Sparrows.  

There were Cabbage Whites, the odd Monarch, Clouded Sulphurs and I saw an Orange Sulphur.   

Northern Crescent

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Common Whitetail

Hopefully, things will start to pick up soon

Week Adventures - July 20-22, 2020

July 20, 2020  Westminster Ponds, London, Ontario

I went to Westminster Ponds to mainly look for insects.  There were a few butterflies around.  A nice warm day 25c and sunny,  feeling like 31c.  Birds I saw were House Wrens, Catbirds, Downy Woodpeckers, and Barn Swallows to name a few.

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Monarch

Northern Broken-Dash

Halloween Pennant

Turkey Vulture

July 21, 2020 - The Coves

I decided to go to The Coves this morning.  It was 21c and cloudy,  I saw a nice variety of birds.  Wood Ducks, Great Blue Herons (8), Catbirds, lots of Robins, American Goldfinches, House Wren, Carolina Wren, Indigo Bunting, Song Sparrows, Red-winged Blackbirds, House Finches, and Northern Cardinals.

Catbird

I was watching this Great Blue Heron wading around for fish. 

Great Blue Heron

As it was moving around, the heron kept looking up to the trees.  I thought I would look to see what the heron was seeing. 

There was another heron up there.  It looks like a young heron.  Maybe the heron in the water was trying to entice the young heron down to the water.

Great Blue Heron (young)

I always love to see Indigo Buntings!

Indigo Bunting

Wood Ducks (female and young)

Midland Painted Turtle

Group of Common Whitetails 

July 22, 2020 - Hyde Park, London, Ontario

A cloudy morning almost felt like rain.  It was getting more humid throughout the morning.  I saw swallows busy catching insects over the water - Barn Swallows, Tree Swallows and Northern Rough-winged Swallows.  This time of the year one starts to see sandpipers as they fly back down south.  There were lots of Killdeers, a Lesser Yellowlegs and a Least Sandpiper.

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Tree Swallow

There was a lot of action in the woods and fields.  A lot of juvenile Robins and Starlings around.  I saw an Eastern Kingbird feeding its fledged young in a nearby tree.  There were Cedar Waxwings, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Catbirds, Field and Song Sparrows, and a Willow Flycatcher, 

Cedar Waxwing

Eastern Kingbird