A Visit to Drumlin Farm

Today Lucy and I met at Drumlin Farm in Lincoln to look in Boyce Field for butterflies.  Afterwards, we stopped at the farm stand down the road and walked through their flower field and finally, we made a stop at Nine Acre Corner to check for Bronze Coppers.

The highlight for me at Drumlin Farm was a fresh, beautiful Common Buckeye.

Common Buckeye

What a beauty!

American Lady

What a cool flower!

 Eastern Phoebe

Gray Hairstreak

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Monarch

Monarch caterpillar

Bronze Copper

Clouded Sulphurs, courting

Monarch

again

American Goldfinch

Cabbage Whites, courting

American Lady

 again

A Visit to Drumlin Farm

Drumlin Farm is a pretty place!  Here are the highlights from my hike:

Clouded Sulphur

Prairie Warbler (my first fall migrant)

Cedar Waxwings (adult and juvenile)

juvenile Cedar Waxwing

American Goldfinch

another

Only one hollyhock in bloom, but it was a beaut!

another American Goldfinch

and another

I had fun trying to get as close as I could to them while they were ransacking the seeds out of these coneflowers.

Great Spangled Fritillary

House Finch (I think) enjoying the ripe berries

Eastern Bluebird bashing its afternoon snack

The view of Mt. Wachuset from the top of the drumlin

Eastern Phoebe

This is a HORRIBLE shot, but I was so shocked to see a Red-Breasted Nuthatch that I had to include my only rotten photo!

A Vist to Tower Hill Botanic Garden

Tower Hill was so fun today!  There was a carnivorous plant show that pulled in a lot of families with young children, and there was a garden emporium with music blasting outside, so it wasn't quite as serene as usual....but there was plenty to entertain.

First I checked out the Carnivorous Plant Show:

  

  

Then, I headed out into the gardens to see what was in bloom and to check on the Mourning Dove nest in the pergola.

Autumn Croci

Two fledglings!

a closeup

  

 Wild Indigo Duskywing

Did you notice the hummingbird to the left?

King of his castle (a birdhouse)

  

Gray Hairstreak