J Neighborhood: 2 Birds, 2 Butterflies and Bumblebees

By neighdoctor July 25, 2017 J Neighborhood: 2 Birds, 2 Butterflies and Bumblebees

Elegant, graceful, simply beautiful, Great Egret

Eastern Kingbird fledgling – yelling for a parent to feed him.

the Common Buckeye butterfly

A Silver-spotted Skipper butterfly sharing a button bush blossom with some Eastern Bumblebees.

All these insects, along with the Common Buckeye are important pollinators.

great egret dawn

By neighdoctor August 30, 2015 great egret dawn

the great egret, brilliant white, glowed in the golden hour light of the dawn

spoilers

By neighdoctor September 27, 2014 spoilers

As I understand it, it was 1948 before man began to use air spoilers on airplane wings. The great egret and all flighted birds, make good use of spoilers as they land. It is not often I get to so easily see the spoilers on the back edges of the wings deployed and the lift spilled so the bird can safely land.