Is it really August? We had nice temperatures today, 75-80 with low humidity and
bit of a NE breeze. As you can see, Matoaka is doing a booming business
Well up the cliffs, a
Red-Spotted Purple butterfly, the first I've seen this
year, stopped to try to sip some mineral rich water out of the clay in a fresh
fall area. It's been a slow year for butterflies. I can't explain it.
Georgia pokes around in the stream that flows between Calvert Beach and Matoaka.
It paid off, she found at least one shark's tooth in there. Overall, an
adequate, but not awesome day for fossils; 26 shark's teeth, 4 drum's teeth and a
couple crab claws, but nothing especially picture worthy.
A
Ring-Billed Gull
on the posing post
Evening Primrose
blooming in the dunes:
Oenothera biennis, the common evening-primrose. . . native to eastern and
central North America, from Newfoundland west to Alberta, southeast to
Florida, and southwest to Texas, and widely naturalized elsewhere in temperate
and subtropical regions. Evening primrose oil (EPO) is produced
from the plant. . . Blooming lasts from late spring to late summer. The flowers are hermaphrodite, produced on a tall spike and only last until the following noon. They open visibly fast every evening producing an interesting spectacle, hence the name "evening primrose". . . The seeds of the plant are important food for birds, and it is a larval host for both the primrose moth and the white-lined sphinx moth.
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