Butterflies and Insects Bee on Purple Coneflower Black Swallowtail Butterfly Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Widow Skimmer Bumble Bee Honey Bee Housefly Grasshopper Cabbage White Butterfly Silver-spotted Skipper Clouded Sulphur Butterfly Red Admiral Butterfly Red-Spotted Purple Butterfly Cabbage White Butterfly Twelve Spotted Skimmer Bumble Bee on Monarda flower Tawny Emperor Butterfly Red Admiral Butterfly Bumble Bee on Purple Coneflower Eastern Swallowtail Butterfly Cabbage White Butterfly Black Swaalowtail Butterfly
Woodpeckers & Nuthatches Red-headed Woodpecker White-breasted Nuthatch Red-bellied Woodpecker White-breasted Nuthatch Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker female White-breasted Nuthatch Hairy Woodpecker Male Red-headed Woodpecker
Songbirds Great Crested Flycatcher Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Baltimore Oriole American Goldfinch Ruby-Crowned Kinglet Cedar Waxwing Northern Shrike Red-winged Blackbird (female) Cedar Waxwing Baltimore Oriole
Waterfowl Redhead Greater White-fronted Goose The highlight of this past week was seeing this Common Loon in the Thames River at Greenway Park. Male Harlequin Duck in flight. White-winged Scoter Wood Duck Hooded Mergansers taking flight. Redhead Horned Grebe Common Goldeneye With so many species calling our region home during the summer months, birding can hardly be described a s low. Wood Duck male Canvasback female American Wigeon Red-necked Grebe Harlequin Duck Greater Scaup male Redhead male and female Red-throated Loon Common Goldeneye female Long-tailed Duck male Hooded Merganser female Bufflehead male American Black Duck Common Goldeneye male Red-breasted Merganser Bufflehead male Hooded Merganser male Common Goldeneye Red-necked Grebe Red-throated Loon