WTD#8 - More June

It's been a rainy June so far, but we are still finding sunny or at least non-raining moments to get out and about to enjoy this rich and colourful season.  We haven't been venturing far from home, just our usual walks on the Slocan rail trail, along the Kootenay River and up in the Rover Creek area.

These are huckleberry leaves just about to unfold, a bit higher up in Rover Creek.

And here are the huckleberry flowers - let's hope for a good crop in July!

Thimbleberry is in bloom - here along the Slocan River

More thimbleberry

The Saskatoons are already forming fruit, and will be ripening before long.

I learned that the name for this butterfly is Sara's Orange-tip.  I never found out who Sara is or was.

Frog Peak and the Slocan River from the rail trail near Vallican.

I got the sense that these Cedar Waxwings were siblings from the same nest, just starting to get out and about on their own.

The remains of a snail along the Slocan Pool trail.

A bumblebee harvesting nectar from a black twinberry flower, Slocan rail trail

This little Warbling Vireo has a big voice and a lovely song. 

Looking down on a cluster of Yarrow flowers.

This is a Black-headed Grosbeak.  I've lived here all my life and don't remember ever seeing one, and this year I have heard several reports of people seeing them, and then voila!  this guy flew up and perched in a tree right in front of me the other day,  Nature is full of surprises, eh Dawg?

"Look, I found some mud!"