Summer herons, beach birds and butterflies

All photos taken in the Hyde Park Area during July and August 2018.

 

water lily in Columbia Basin in back of MSI building

green heron near Osaka Garden

black-crowned night heron in Osaka Garden

black crowned night heron with waterfall and mulberry tree

great egret in Columbia Basin behind the MSI building

western painted turtle in Oakwoods Cemetery

spotted sandpiper on 63rd Street Beach

One of this year’s hatchlings–spotted sandpiper

Ring-billed gull and Caspian tern on 63rd Street Beach . You usually see Caspian terns diving beak first into the lagoons.

A few pink ring-billed gulls showed up at 63rd Street beach.  Juvenile ring-billed gull on the right

A blue Swedish duck or maybe a manky mallard (mix of mallard and domestic ducks) showed up with 2 mallards

chipmunks have moved into Wooded Isle

chipmunk checking out white mulberry fruit

squirrel in white mulberry tree

adult cliff swallow hanging out in nest

cliff swallow nest on 63rd Street beach house wall

young cliff swallow nestlings with white feathers that perhaps fool potential predators into thinking they are bird poop

an older cliff swallow nestling

female or juvenile red-winged blackbird with snack

female monarch on joe pye weed

monarch caterpillar

black swallowtail on butterfly bush

silver-spotted skipper– another candidate for bird poop camoflague

female white form– clouded sulfur–looks blue when wings are open

red-spotted purple butterfly

eastern comma on milkweed

Underside of this butterfly’s wing has a very faint comma. Again, nice camouflage

tiger lily in wooded isle