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It is a picture-perfect Monday morning, but I’ve got an 8am online meeting, so I’ll have to wait until later today to visit Estabrook Park. In the meantime, recent days have been so fruitful that I’ve accumulated a few extra pictures that I hope will tide you over. The sulphurs have been plentiful lately, butContinue reading “A Monday Mishmash…”

I almost didn’t go out this morning. I was on a bike ride on the Oak Leaf trail yesterday when the Canada wildfire smoke rolled in, and at 7:30 this morning, two full hours after sunrise, I had to turn on a light to read the paper. Then my friend, Lisa, texted about a turtleContinue reading “Birds and more bugs, but no bucks…”

I had plenty of pictures left over from yesterday, and dear friends kept me up past my bedtime last evening with good food and great company, so I contemplated not visiting Estabrook Park this morning. When I saw the beautiful blue sky, however, I just couldn’t pass it up, so out the door I went,Continue reading “Butterflies, birds, blossoms,and bucks.”

I did visit Estabrook yesterday afternoon, but I didn’t get a lot of pictures, and I got home late, so I figured I just wait and include them in today’s post. This morning, I waited out the clouds and brief shower, so the sun was shining, and the sky was blue by the time IContinue reading “Just when you think there’s nothing new to see…”

You may have noticed I skipped the park yesterday morning, so when I got a text message in the late afternoon about an egret on the river, I really couldn’t say that I’d already put in my time, so I hopped on my bike an rode up to the north end to see what IContinue reading “An afternoon delight…”

It was a lovely morning in Estabrook Park, and it was also very quiet, but I’m not sure which conjunction should go where. I initially wrote that I didn’t see any new or surprising visitors, but I did see my first snowberry clearwing of the season. It was checking out a stand of milkweeds butContinue reading “Anglers”

On my way to the pond this morning, I found this cutie vacuuming up the mulberries sprinkled all over the lawn under that tree. And, as I approached the river at the far north end, I spotted this fledgling Baltimore oriole picking away at the mulberries still on the tree there. So, if you haveContinue reading “Another short one…”

This will be a short report. The day is beautiful, and the park looks refreshed after all the rain we got yesterday afternoon, but the critters seemed to be going about their business with a renewed sense of urgency, so pictures were hard to come by. Luckily, this catbird picked a nicely exposed and sunnyContinue reading “The sun returns after a good soaking…”

Well, it took me three tries, twice yesterday and once again this morning, to get some pictures worth showing, and here they finally are: The wood duck hen on the pond, who started with ten ducklings just two weeks ago, is down to only four, and here they are all in a row. I alsoContinue reading “Happy 5th of July!”

Ah, that’s more like it! The smoke and humidity have moved on, and we had blue skies this morning like I haven’t seen in weeks. I was able to take advantage of it right away at the south end when a ruckus amongst the crows distracted this one enough from evading me for a moment.Continue reading “I can see clearly now, the haze is gone…”