Easy parking

August 05, 2018  •  Leave a Comment


Going to the beach on a hot Sunday summer morning was probably an act of insanity, even though I had left early enough to avoid traffic, but since my destination was Napatree Point in Watch Hill, I had my doubts about finding a place to park. Happily, it turned out, Bay Street was pretty empty at 7:30, so I slid into an open space and trekked to the beach. My reason for coming, besides the fact that you don't really need a reason to hike the sand, was to try to find a rare Eurasian bird known as the Little Egret that had been reported to be visiting the Lagoon area near the Point. I'll go just about anywhere to spot a rarity and besides, who knows what else I might find? As it happened, I'd just missed the egret, but I spotted lots of other interesting shorebirds, many of them in the vanguard of returning migrants. Their numbers will peak in the next few weeks, but one creature in particular caught my eye... and lens. This has been a pretty decent Monarch Butterfly year, and while it's still too early for that epic southern Monarch push—I think many of the insects are pushing north for the last breeding cycle—there were a number of the beautiful lepidopterans exploring the beach. What this Danaus plexippus was doing on the asphalt is beyond me, but, given its compact size, it wasn't having trouble finding a place to park.


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