The year seems to be passing very quickly, we're two-thirds of the way through already. It was a busy month. While most of the PhotoStories are linked, you might want to check out the other site mentioned on the home page.
Lots of wildflowers are blooming everywhere, with some fall flowers starting to appear. (Scroll over for ID)
Cardinal flower
Joe-pye weed
Fireweed
Purple loosestrife
Knapweed
Wild rose
Burdock
Rose mallow
Showy tick-trefoil
Dame's rocket
Musk mallow
Monkeyflower
Field mint
Bottle gentian
Flowering rush
Evening primrose
Golden rod
St John's wort
Brown-eyed susan
Tansy
Woodland sunflower
Bird's foot trefoil
Butter and eggs
Touch-me-not (Impatiens)
Flat topped white asters
Arrowhead
Turtlehead
I discovered that a good number of Queen Anne's Lace flowers that were going to seed were hosting carrot seed moth caterpillars.
With all the rain we've had, mushrooms were showing up a month earlier than normal.
One mushroom really caught my eye, but only in the morning as it was finished and gone by the afternoon. Hare's foot inkcap.
They start out like a skinless cap
Often mistaken for mushrooms, Indian pipes, a perennial flower, seemed to be very plentiful, including well over 200 groupings at Mer Bleue
A few birds caught my eye more than others
Green heron with itch at Mud Lake
Blue jays at Parc Omega
Juvenile bald eagle at Mud Lake
Cape may warbler on the ridge at Mud Lake
Female cardinal in molt
Male cardinal, mouth full, ending molt
Parc Omega has opened up the arctic wolf enclosure, the wolves are now free to wander around the road as the cars drive through.
The Zoo in Syracuse NY has two 11 month old twins that were catching everyone's eyes
A walk around Pink Lake in Gatineau Park produced some nice berries and interestingly shaped sap drips
Buckthorn
Climbing nightshade
sap drip
sap drip
The large sand sculpture and the butter sculpture certainly were eye catching
