Nature Done Wright

Julie McCall writes:

Saw a cool moth yesterday at CF, and thought I'd send it your way ….It's not the best photo ever taken, but I
didn't want to go off trail to get closer. 

I was lingering around the Aisle A Dam this morning, trying to locate a
 Swainson's Thrush that's been reported there for several days.  With
the warm weather today, I finally started seeing more butterflies, and,
at long last, some dragonflies.  So my eyes were darting at pretty much
everything that moved, even if it wasn't bird-shaped.  I saw some
fluttering, but thought, "That's too grey to be a butterfly…"  

Good
thing I saw it in flight, because it chose just then to land, and simply
melted into the tree bark.  I never would have seen it if I came upon
it afterwards. 

It was a birdy day. I had over 60 bird species, including Eastern
Wood-Pewee, Great Crested Flycatcher,  Eastern Kingbird, 2 Swainson's
Thrushes, numerous Wood Thrushes and Veerys, both orioles, Yellow-billed
Cuckoo 2 days in a row, Wilson's Warbler + 8 other warbler species…
 EIGHT Great Blues in the lake at once (this may or may not be a record,
but I've never seen so many in the lake at one time.)

…And I also had 3 out-of-water snapping turtles within a 50-foot stretch of path along the brook.  They had me surrounded!

Thanks, Julie!