Weekend Visit to Adirondack State Park

I stopped at Northhampton Community Gardens on my way west in hopes of spotting either a Long-Tailed Skipper or a Checkered White, but I was unlucky on both.  Still, it was a wonderful couple of hours under overcast skies and cool temps.

Monarch

Monarch

Viceroy

mating Cabbage Whites

Duskywing species

American Copper

From there, it was on to my weekend in the Adirondacks with my sister and her husband.  We stayed at Fish Creek Pond and enjoyed this beautiful view.

Lynn and Bob canoeing on the pond

Great Blue Heron

Brown Creeper

oh my!

And the pond came with a loon family!

Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker

More loons!

Common Merganser

another Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker

Red-Breasted Nuthatch!

the last sighting of the loons (complete with haunting call)