Confluence Park Field Trip 09-27-2022
Alamo Area Master Naturalist class 47 went to Confluence Park to learn all about the San Antonio River Authority's efforts to restore and preserve nature along the San Antonio River. I was blown away by the diversity of living creatures there.
 Powdered Dancer (damselfly) |
 Gulf Fritillary |
 Northern Mockingbird |
 Dusky Dancer (damselfly) |
 Black Setwing |
 Guinea Paper Wasps |
 Dotted Roadside-Skipper on a passion flower |
 Fringed Passionflower (Passiflora ciliata) |
 Honey bee on a passion flower |
 Trumpet Vine |
 Gulf Fritillary on Flame Acanthus |
 Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
 Common Checkered-Skipper on an unknown yellow flower |
 Maximilian Sunflower |
 Silver Bluestem |
 Fringed Passion Flower |
 Black Saddlebags |
 Alamo Vine |
 Bur Oak |
 Snowy Egret |
 Tie Vine |
 Dotted Roadside-Skipper on a Tie Vine blossom |
 Sweet Indian Mallow |
 Pond Slider |
 Neotropic Cormorant I watched this bird grab that stick and float under a bridge for about 30 yards carrying it in its mouth. |
 Same bird. Same stick. Building a nest? |
 Diamondback Watersnake |
 Look at that cute little face! |
 Differential Grasshopper |
 Differential Grasshopper |
 Powdered Dancer |
 Queen butterfly on Poverty Weed |