Friday, July 30, 2021

New butterfly

A stupid monarch caterpillar ate half of the only seedpod even though there were still plenty of leaves on the butterfly milkweed.  A blue dasher waited on a perch.  Later, a slaty skimmer hunted from a different perch.

A tiny gray and white butterfly joined the wasps on the mountain mint.  After much paging through azures and hairstreaks, I found out it was a Common Checkered Skipper Pyrgus communis.    

A great egret used one of the dock posts as a perch while grooming feathers.  

When the cars backed up on the way to the HRBT, I took some sunset pictures.  


 


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