How I spent my lack of summer vacation

It has been too long since I blogged. I got very busy at work and home and then I was so far behind I put off posting anything.  I’ve decided to just post a lot of recent (two month) images and call that good enough. Maybe I’ll be able to post on a regular basis after getting this done.

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Two Rivers Park and a little bit of Cook’s Landing 7/7/2013

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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Pinnacle Mountain State Park 7/6/2013

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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