The last TWO Weeks at Nixon Park - August 13-26
August 13-19 was a mostly cloudy week, making for poor photography conditions, so I decided to take a break, thus two weeks in this post for the price of one.
Oval Ambersnail, Basking Red-eared Sliders bookending a Eastern Painted Turtle, an Eastern Musk Turtle climbing a branch of Black Willow, A young Eastern Painted Turtle
It's the height of Bee and Wasp Season! The Hibiscus Turret Bees are about done building and provisioning their nests, A Perplexing Bumble Bee (actual name, not a modifing adjective), Denticulate Longhorn Bee, A Resin Bee of indeterminate species, Ceretina, your weekly Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Two-banded Cellophane Cuckoo Bee
Organ-pipe Mud-dauber Wasp nests, Weevil Wasp, Blue-winged Scolid Wasp, Gold-marked Thread-waisted Wasp, Four-toothed Mason Wasp, Northern Paper Wasp.
Cardinal Flowers
Great Blue Lobelia
Scaldweed, a parasitic vine with no chlorophyl.
Straw-colored Flatsedge, Wild Bergamot, False Sunflower, Blue Mist Flower, Poke Weed Berries, Black Cherry Leaf Gall Mite, Queen Anne's Lace, Wingstem
Zabulon Skipper, Spice Bush Swallowtail, Wild Indigo Duskywing, Huron Sachem, Monarch, Common Buckeye, Cabbage White
The Belted Kingfisher would not let me get close enough for a good picture, An often heard yet seldom seen Wood Pe-Wee, another shot of the Fledgling Robin, Juvenile Bluebird, Goldfinch, Tufted Titmouse
The Great Blue Heron
The Gray Squirrels are sticking up for the winter.
