Nature Outings While in Ohio

We've attempted to include some nature outings while I've been visiting my parents in Ohio (in spite of many consecutive days with high temps to the mid 90s and high humidity).  Here are the highlights:

Chase Bank Complex (near my sister's house):

 Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Great Blue Heron

Trumpeter Swans

Gallant Woods Preserve:

Song Sparrow

Red-Winged Blackbirds

  

American Goldfinch

  

                             Cardinal Flower                                             Fuller's Teasel


Deer Haven Preservation Park:

Song Sparrow

Schiller Park (Columbus):

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

  

                                                             Flamingo plant statue

Summer Azure

Silver-Spotted Skipper

  

Back to Deer Haven Preservation Park:

Summer Azure

my favorite sighting

Indigo Bunting on Ironweed

Little Yellow on Partridge Pea

 Peck's Skipper

Scarlet Tanager, carrying food

Eastern Comma (I think)

Eastern Amberwing

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American Goldfinch

Inniswood Metro Gardens:

  

            ??                                               Eastern-Tailed Blue

 Peck's Skipper (?) on a rose.  Not something I'd ever see back home!

  

  

 Silver-Spotted Skipper

And one more time to Deer Haven Preservation Park:

gorgeous sky!!!

Great Spangled Fritillary

Common Wood Nymph

 Hackberry Emperor

 again

another look at Mr. Indigo Bunting

 Spicebush Swallowtail (I think)

 again

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

 Fiery Skipper

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