Twins!

There’s been no change in the weather, so I won’t belabor that point. Instead, the big new news is that we have two more fawns in Estabrook Park. Woo hoo! These were at the far south end this morning, and there were two together with their mom, so I’m sure they are twins and neither one is the fawn we saw on the islands in the river as recently as Monday. It would have been great if I had had a shorter lens with me, so I could show you both, but I still haven’t settle on a way to do that and keep the reach of my long lens, so we’re stuck with an image of just one of them for now.

I had only gotten as far north as the Benjamin Church House when I heard the familiar cry of a young raccoon, and it didn’t take me long to find the youngster, big enough to be out on its own, but acting like a cat that climbed a tree and now can’t get back down.

It’s been a while since we hauled a bunch of tires out of the river, and I don’t know if new ones are replacing them, or old ones are just finally surfacing, but this spotted sandpiper wanted to make sure that I knew about this one. “Thanks, Buddy! I’ll get right on it!”

The olive-sided flycatcher was still with us this morning, and this time it posed low enough that I could get it in front of a nice green background. My vision is “color-challenged,” so I can’t say for sure if that is bringing out any of the olive-green on its vest. Can you see it?

At the pollinator garden, a pair of American goldfinches were eagerly tearing the seeds out of spent blooms, and here’s the male, whose fancy breeding plumage is starting to look like it has seen some wear, but I can still see the yellow.

Finally, after a bit of a butterfly drought, I got to see a pretty fresh looking common buckeye, …

and this gorgeous painted lady at the weeds beside the southern soccer fields.

I see that the breeze is forecast to pick up a bit by tomorrow morning, so I wonder if that will blow anyone new our way. If it does, I’ll be sure to let you know.