Susan's Birding and Nature Blog

Sunday, 23 July 2023

Roaming Around London Area

London Area - Week of July 16-22, 2023

Some different wildlife I saw this past week.  A nice variety of things.

Midland Painted Turtle

Northern Leopard Frog

Grasshopper and Bee

Great Blue Heron

Monarch

American Goldfinch

Butterfly Milkweed

Monarch

Monarch

Willow Flycatcher


Midland Painted Turtles

Northern Leopard Frog



Monday, 17 July 2023

Wet and Buggy

Just a short blog this week as four days I didn't go out birding...so nothing much to report.

Lots of Painted Turtles catching some sun first part of last week.  We had a lot of rain - heavy downpours lately so Thames River is very high.  No rocks are showing to look for more turtles.  





Mourning Dove

Today I went to the Coves.  The mosquitoes were really bad so I didn't spend as much time there as I hoped.  It was hard taking photos with mosquitoes buzzing around my head. 

Catbird

Lots of adult and juvenile robins around.


Family of Northern Flickers - There were 5 together


Sunday, 9 July 2023

Findings - First Week of July

July 2023

I was able to find some butterflies through the week.  There was not a lot...one has to really look for them.

Common Wood-Nymph

This Painted Turtle was walking across the parking lot from the Cove pond so I watched and protected it to make sure it arrived at the other side to in a small pond.


Little Wood Satyr

First Monarch of the season!

Monarch

Some other findings.

Northern Crescent


American Goldfinch

Common Whitetail

Bluet species

Eastern Amberwing