The weather continues to be unseasonably nice out here on the east coast, so I couldn’t but get out for a minute or two, even though our day was otherwise filled with doctors’ appointments and airport pickups.
I did hear a few birds during my outing, of course, but the only ones I managed to capture on film were these two song sparrows hiding in the bushes together, and if I had to guess, the pair comprised a parent and a fledged youngster.
I wasn’t near any water that I knew of, so I was pleasantly surprised to spot this skimming bluet damselfly.
Less surprising, but just as enjoyable, was this pristine-looking eastern tailed-blue.
When I saw this beauty, I got all excited because I thought it might be the tailed-blue with its wings open, but it turns out to be just a boring old gray hairstreak, instead. Ha!
A few flowers are in bloom, including this thistle, so no one should be surprised to see a bumblebee, and here’s a common eastern.
Looking quite similar, except with a shiny abdomen instead of a fuzzy one, is this eastern carpenter bee.
Finally, a trip to that little patch of weeds beside my folks’ yard hardly seems complete now without a wild indigo duskywing butterfly, so here we are.
Signs of Life in Estabrook Park 