The beautiful weather we’ve enjoyed for the past couple of days is beginning to fray, and by the time the temps hit 75°F this morning, the humidity was still 75%. Soggy!
The first picture I thought worth taking didn’t come until I reached the north end, when I spotted this doe wading from our riverbank to the upstream island, …
with her fawn in hot pursuit. I would have liked to get a nice portrait of the two of them together, of course, but they didn’t dawdle and soon disappeared inside the thick brush that grows on the island.
Just a bit upstream, I found another mom with her young charges also in hot pursuit.
As I approached the meadow on my way back south, I spotted what I presumed was another doe gobbling up blossoms, but upon closer inspection, I suspect that she may be the same doe who had just parked her fawn on the island, and she is now out carefully collecting the nutrition she needs to keep them both healthy.
Once the doe ambled off, look who I found napping on a Queen Anne’s lace blossom. That’s a golden northern bumblebee, whom we first saw right about this time just last summer.
Finally, the stars have aligned at last, and here’s a monarch butterfly sipping nectar from a purple cone flower in the pollinator garden.
Signs of Life in Estabrook Park 