Butterflies and More at Wooton Wetlands Park.

With just a few less clouds this would have been a perfect birding day. Low humidity and temps in the high 70s made for a great morning at Wooton. Butterflies are still feeding like mad, and a few birds posed well.

Spicebush Swallowtail

Western Tiger Swallowtail

Western Tiger Swallowtail

Western Tiger Swallowtail

Western Tiger Swallowtail

Every plant with a blossom had one or more butterflies feeding.


Yellow Breasted Chat

Yellow Breasted Chat

Yellow Breasted Chat

Yellow Breasted Chat

Yellow Breasted Chats have stopped singing, but they are still present.


Common Yellowthroat

Common Yellowthroat

Common Yellowthroat

Common Yellowthroat

This Common Yellowthroat kept a caterpillar in his beak for several minutes.


Common Yellowthroat

This may be a first year Common Yellowthroat .

Red Shouldered Hawk

Red Shouldered Hawk 60

No sooner had this Red Shouldered Hawk settled in the dead tree than he was mobbed and driven off by a flock of Crows.

Indigo Bunting

Indigo Bunting

Indigo Buntings are still singing loudly and often.


Catbird

You can’t go far at Wooton without hearing a Catbird.


Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpeckers often let me get quite close.