So I saw this dragonfly and thought it was a juvenile Common Whitetail but then noted that the wing spots were wrong. Woo hoo! I thought. A little research later, I learned this was a female Common Whitetail and down the field a little ways was a juvenile male to compare her to.
I started at Cook’s Sunday morning but was kind of slow so I moved across the river to Two Rivers Park looking for anything worth looking at. I visited the new mound that they just built and found several things: 1) it could be used as a sit on the grass amphitheater if they allow; 2) a new to me butterfly- the Sachem skipper; 3) a human sundial. I also found three Eastern Tiger Swallowtails and Pipevine Swallowtail enjoying the button bush.
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I walked the Rocky Valley Trail Saturday morning while it was cool. At the top and bottom there was quite a bit of bird song, Summer Tanager, Carolina Wren, Pine Warbler, Red-eyed Vireo, to name a few but in the middle silence. Along the way I got a picture of a cooperative Carolina Wren, what I think is a Blue-tipped Dancer, and a reluctant Southern Copperhead. He would not budge and I wasn’t about to place an ankle within striking distance so after a bit I found a long piece of river cane and gently urged him to move along so that I could too. Note the pits on top of the head of this pit viper. After the trail, I stopped at their flower garden and picked up a first of season Silver-spotted Skipper, a generic robberfly, and a Prairie Lizard. Note the blue on the Prairie Lizard.
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