DISPATCH FROM PETRIE #141, SEPTEMBER, 2023

We visited Petrie Island late in the afternoon mid-month. The light was wonderful for photos, but the wildlife is much less active at that time of day.

The late summer/fall flowers were in bloom

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Bottle gentian

Bottle gentian

Turtleheads

Sneezeweed

Sneezeweed with bee

Water smartweed

Marsh woundwort

Fall asters

Impatiens, Touch-me-not

Berries were becoming common

Bittersweet, carrion-flower, highbush cranberry

​​​​​​​Pigeon horntail (a primitive bee/wasp)

Description of a pigeon horntail

Autumn Meadowhawk dragonflies

A co-operative, but distant at times, egret…

A more camouflaged great blue heron

 A few mallards found a spot in the sun, while three painted turtles, after the sun moved, were sitting in the shade.

A cottontail rabbit and a grey squirrel were sorting out right-of-ways

Some odd looking growths on a leaf turned out to be a parasite:

Hackberry nipplegall psyllid,