Prospect Park in the Rain

Lullwater Bridge, sea of duckweed.Gall on witch-hazel
Green heron, Butorides virescens, a park nester, and Black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax, in the Lullwater.A young cottontail rabbit, Sylvilagus floridanus.
Silver spotted skipper, Epargyreus clarus, in the coneflowers behind the Boathouse. In the same pollinator-friendly area, one of the most handsome of hymenoptera, a Golden Northern bumble bee, Bombus fervidus, female.A haw, the fruit of a hawthorne, still unripe.Staghorn sumac, Rhus typhina. Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, grooming.