I got out on a 2.5 hour walk early in Prospect Park, walked from the boathouse through a trail to the Vale, back toward the Ravine followed the water down to the Neathermead and then got to walk along the Lullwater.
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| Lots of quick-moving red eyed vireos out together. Seen in various areas during today's walk. |
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| A terrible photo, but helped me to ID this unknown at the time... warblers this time of year are notorious for getting a wee bit confusing. This is a black-throated blue. The little white patch at the base of the primary feathers (on the wings) was one clue I went by, as well as the marking around the eye. Black-throated blue is my very best match. |
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| A not-so shy grey catbird. I like these guys, but they are everywhere! |
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| Not a bee/hornet/wasp or anything from the hymenoptera order of insects. This belongs to the order, diptera- flies! This is a Toxomerus hover fly. They look like a wasp, but do not sting. Like a bee, they feed on nectar and can hover, as their name implies. Nice job at mimicking, by this creature. |
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| Fooled again? This is also a fly (order, diptera)! I a=have identified this one as transverse flower fly. These flies too feed on nectar, and also in turn are helpful pollinators like bees and butterflies. |
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| A pearl crescent butterfly, feeding in the same flower patch as the two flies above. |
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| An Eastern Bumble Bee comes to join the pearl crescent on the same flower. That bee is coated in pollen! I also found a great online guide to bumble bee species, did you know there were so many?? |
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| A robin born this year, just looks so wonderfully awkward in that juvenile plumage. |
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| A grey catbird takes a stroll on the Lullwater with a few others, and myself. |
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