Catching up on Recent BHCL Visits

I haven't been getting out as much, and even so, I haven't been keeping up with my blog well either.  Excuses aside.  I will attempt to catch up with the highlights from my recent visits to Breakneck Hill Conservation Land.  It is a pretty spot, in spite of our drought conditions.

8/16:

  

Common Ringlet

American Copper

A bizarre pile of scat (for those who find that sort of thing interesting)

American Goldfinch

It's the season for beautiful Goldfinch poses

Spicebush Swallowtail

8/17:

Common Sootywing

Monarch

skipper

Black Swallowtail

Common Ringlet

8/18:

Peck's Skipper

American Copper

Red-Bellied Woodpecker (juvenile)

Spicebush Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

8/23:

Bath time!

 Blue Vervain

Black Swallowtail

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Gray Hairstreaks

American Goldfinch

8/26:

Gray Hairstreak

Gray Hairstreak

Eastern Tailed-Blue

two ETBs fighting over the same flower

Red-Tailed Hawks (I think one is a juvenile)

Peck's Skipper on Blue Vervain

and on Coneflower