The rest of the story…

Here are the rest of the pictures from yesterday that I ran out of time to show you. As I already mentioned, I saw the two fawns on the east side of the pond, and one was prancing around a bit when they first spotted me. That’s the one who then came over to check me out. The little rascal got so close so quickly I struggled to get any pictures at all.

Then Mom appeared at the edge of the woods, …

And this is the picture I already showed you yesterday of the youngster looking for all the world as if it really wanted to stay and play.

After all that excitement, I could hardly believe my luck to find the young black-crowned night-heron perched over the pond again.

At the river, my run of luck continued with the appearance of these five (5!) lesser yellowlegs.

Here’s three of them neatly in a row.

And here’s the best portrait of a pair I could muster at that distance.

I was there too early in the day for the softshelled turtles to be up, so I headed back south along the river and soon came upon this inquisitive little red squirrel.

At the pollinator garden I got to watch a snowberry clearwing work its magic again.

Finally, at the small patch of burdock between the Oak Leaf Trail and Wilson Drive at the southern exit, a monarch posed just too nicely for me to ignore.