And yet another steamy morning at the beach. It was already well into its way into the 80s as we got to the beach. However, a nice southwest wind, helped quite a bit without making the Bay rough.
Just one of those weird things. In a couple of places we foundlarge numbers of
Bay Anchovy (
Anchoa mitchilli), washed up and being sun dried at the high tide mark. Pushed up and stranded by predators? Avoiding low oxygen? I can't see an obvious reason.
Bay anchovy are one of the most abundant fish in the Bay, and form huge
schools that often look like rain on the water, and are often called
rain minnows.
A father and son out enjoying an inflatable kayak.
Butterflies! There were lots of Eastern Tiger Swallowtails on the beach today, and I do mean on the beach, as they seemed to be
"puddling"; finding damp spots on the sand to sip water from. All were yellow phase except...
...this one. We must have seen over 20 swallowtails, today, and this was the only dark one. It's marked very much like
the one I photographed at home in the woods yesterday, which makes me feel a lot better about my tentative ID of it as a dark Eastern Tiger Swallowtail.
After I disturbed this one, she went over to the
Coltsfoot to rest, and gave me another great shot.
It's hot! Can we go home now?
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