A few more from Marlborough Forest
August 31st, 2016
White Admiral, wallpaper available
Daylight was waning, I was in the shade--it didn't matter. Cardinal Flowers are unconditionally blazing red! This beautiful native (pollinated exclusively by hummingbirds) was a singleton sprouting up amidst dense sprays of non-native Loosestrife and Queen Anne's Lace, literally a flower in a field of weeds (apologies to Billy Talent.)
Eastern Tailed Blue
Carpenter Ants were just boiling out of this hole in a tree. These are food source number one for Pileated Woodpeckers--comprising about 2/3 of their diet and even close to 100% in some individuals. And it's most certainly a Pileated Woodpecker who made this hole to get at them. The only question is why it moved on with so many of the colony still left!
It may have moved on because of me. Glistening rivulets of sap proved how recent the job was.
False Solomon's Seal berry is disgruntled.
August 31st, 2016
White Admiral, wallpaper available
Daylight was waning, I was in the shade--it didn't matter. Cardinal Flowers are unconditionally blazing red! This beautiful native (pollinated exclusively by hummingbirds) was a singleton sprouting up amidst dense sprays of non-native Loosestrife and Queen Anne's Lace, literally a flower in a field of weeds (apologies to Billy Talent.)
Eastern Tailed Blue
Carpenter Ants were just boiling out of this hole in a tree. These are food source number one for Pileated Woodpeckers--comprising about 2/3 of their diet and even close to 100% in some individuals. And it's most certainly a Pileated Woodpecker who made this hole to get at them. The only question is why it moved on with so many of the colony still left!
It may have moved on because of me. Glistening rivulets of sap proved how recent the job was.
False Solomon's Seal berry is disgruntled.
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Mike
September 2nd, 2016 at 8:39 am
Also has cool soul patch.
The Eastern Tailed Blue is lovely!