On our (scenic) way back to Picton for dinner, we took a one-track dirt road with water-filled potholes from the recent rain.
As we drove, we saw clouds of yellow butterflies lift off and decided to stop and wait for them to settle back down. There were a number of species puddling (or mud-puddling) together to suck up nutrients from the wet soil.
After a while we were free to walk slowly as long as we kept our distance. Susan was even able to take some photographs with her iPhone.
My first reaction was how small they all seemed.
Notice how one of the Pearl Crescents is so much larger than the others. We had never seen more than one at a time before. The large one is probably a male.
There was a wheat field on one side of the road where a few wildflowers also resided.
In spring, the roadsides in Prince Edward County are lined with lilacs. In the summer, the ditches are full of Orange Daylilies.
Osprey Update
We returned from Prince Edward County to find that two of the three juvenile Ospreys had already fledged. As expected, they are still staying close to the nest because they have not yet mastered the ability to fish and feed themselves. We see that the youngest is holding its own and has learned to wait until its siblings finish eating before trying to partake in the fish delivered by the adults. This gave us a renewed understanding of pecking order! Sometimes, the dominant juvenile grabs the fish that has been delivered and flies off with it to consume it on the low unoccupied nest platform nearby.
The youngest shows little inclination to flap its wings or leave the nest, but there is still time!
I have been putting videos on a dedicated YouTube Channel that you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/@londonospreys
Celebrating Tony Bennet
I spent some time watching Tony Bennet videos and liked the ones with Lady Gaga the best. They clearly got under each other’s skin.