I visited Hastings Park today for the first time in two weeks. Birds were scarce. The only songs I heard were from one loud Warbling Vireo plus single Song and White-crowned Sparrows. One Mallard brood was done to one lone duckling. It was getting harder to tell the adults and maturing juveniles Mallards apart. As some compensation, dragonfly numbers were up and I spotted a number of exuvias (the cast-off shell of the nymph, from which the adult dragonfly emerges) clinging to reed stalks near the board walk. Several Western Tiger Swallowtail butterflies were also wafting about. Flowers and shrubs in flower included Fireweed, Douglas's Spirea and Ocean Spray. White sprays of this year's flowers of the Ocean Spray alternate with the faded yellow blooms from last year. Less welcome blooms included numerous Field Bindweeds and buttercups. Saskatoons and Thimbleberries were ripening. I found several maturing hazelnuts. A youthful fisher had arrived by skateboard.
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