A record wet month brought out the mosquitoes - not nice, but it also brought out summer flowers and plant growth
A 5"/120mm rainfall ended with a nice double rainbow
A blinded sphinx moth, hiding in our garden, and was certainly an eye-catcher as we had not seen one before
A walk in the woods had my eyes being attracted constantly to various insects, plants and birds:
Widow skimmer dragonfly, aerial yellow jacket, bare leek blooms (2x) coming up from the ground, tiny mushrooms, mum red-shouldered hawk and two teenagers (2x)
While they lighting is different, the difference between green heron with neck stretched and not stretched certainly catches the eye
At Colonnade Ponds with the green herons was (left) a sweat bee and right, and (right) on the Trillium Bike Trail a tiny eastern calligrapher hoverfly
At Mud Lake a great blue heron posed, while a moulting male wood duck was amongst the lilypads half hidden most of the time
A lot of colourful paint was sprayed on Eddy St in Hull
While in Carleton Place my eye spotted a decorated control box
I knew wild rice grew in Northern Ontario, but didn't know it grew around here. But here is a wild rice plant growing in the large marsh at Limerick Forest. Limerick Forest was also hosting some trumpeter swans
At the Mer Bleue Boardwalk, along with the mosquitoes, were:
- several primrose moths (and eastern calligrapher hoverflies) in the many evening primrose blossoms
- what I thought was an odd looking Queen Anne's Lace flower, turned out to be a poisonous bulbet-bearing water hemlock plant
- One of my favourite latish summer flowers are the Indian pipes. While I had seen hundreds of them on a trail about 2-3 km away, I had not noticed them at Boardwalk before.
