A day at the Butterfly Bush!

Today was a very busy day at the Butterfly bush.  It was full of bees and butterflies.

The Cabbage White were in attendance.  I counted at least 5.  Then the next large group of butterflies were the Silver-spotted Skipper....

The next ones are skippers but I have not seen them at my yard before.  They are very small so I may have overlooked them.....

I think this is a Yellow Skipper.  They fly around fast. Then there was this...

This I think is a Zabulon Skipper....

This one is like a chocolate butterfly....believe it is a Dun Skipper.
Lots of Skippers in the yard today...all but the Silver-spotted Skipper are new to my yard.

This Humming Bird Moth visited too.  It is hard to get a good picture as he is fast.

This beautiful Spicebush Swallowtail visited and really enjoyed the butterfly bush.  This was a first in my yard also.  I was very excited.  There was a very tiny, tiny blue butterfly that I just couldn't get a picture of...it might have been a Summer Azure but I just couldn't get focused in to it.
It was a very exciting day for the butterfly bush....and me!!!!!  (If I identified one wrong, please let me know....thanks)

Update on the Opsrey at Deer Creek.

We decided to check out the Opsrey at Deer Creek to see how they came through the horrid June Storm.

They were all there.  It is amazing to see the 3 babies.  We looked around for the other parent and finally found him on a tree on the bank...

The young ones look like they are about ready to take flight.

This one was flapping his wings getting ready for a take off.

We also noticed a Heron fly in along the bank behind the nest.  We didn't think anything of if at first until we heard this horrid noise!

The post on the left is the nest........both parents took off after the Heron and the Heron was screaming up a storm!!!!

They were flying in circles and diving at the Heron.  He took off and to fly into the brush along the water to hide.

You can just see his wing as he disappears.... 

It is an impressive sight, seeing two adult Osprey circling over head.  We backed up a bit into the trees just to be sure they didn't want to scare us too.... 

While all the commotion was going on, two of the babies got up to watch their parents protect them.

It was a good day for the Osprey!