Baby Bird

I found this little one as I came back from a walk on Thursday evening. I assume it took a tumble out of the neighbour's arbovitae while trying to fly. I took its picture and left it alone. Friday morning it was gone. I hope it recovered and went on its merry way.

Creepy crawly

I found this little guy parked in the middle of our driveway on a rainy day back at the end of September. From time to time I find salamanders in the basement and under rocks in the back yard. I've never found one out in the open like this. I'm not a herpetology person so I can't tell you what kind of salamander it is.


Salamander 1 


Salamander 2 

Butterflies

I found one of these in my purple cone flowers this afternoon.



Black swallowtail



Spicebush swallowtail (male)



Mourning cloak (link 2)

I can't really decide which one it was. It was dark brown with larger prolongations on the hindwings than the mourning cloak. There were yellow spots at the margin of the forewings and iridescent blue green spots on the margin of the hindwings. I didn't see any orange spots that would be indicative of a swallowtail butterfly but I was keeping an eye on three kids at the time so maybe I missed it. There are also at least two species of bees in the cone flowers as well.

(Cross posted at Uncle Sam's Cabin.)