Wednesday Walk - Flowers in the Forest

We found some flowers in the forest for this #wednesdaywalk by @tattoodjay

I'm not sure what these blue flowers are but they were everywhere in the forest.

The pollinators are quite happy about this. I saw a few of these swallowtails feasting on the acres of flowers.

Lots of bees are out too. I think this year will be quite a buggy year especially with the cicadas coming soon.

The whole forest floor was covered in these flowers as well as some white and red trilliums.

I walked a bit through the forest to be surrounded by all the flowers... Unfortunately later on I found a tick on me, terrible critters always ruin a good forest walk.

Here is an interesting burnt log with turkeytail growing out of it. I'm hoping this thing will get completely covered with turkeytail.

Wood ducks are being shy out here. Right when they catch a glimpse of you they run off to the far distance of the lake.

Meanwhile at the more open lake the geese are not shy at all.

There are two families of geese that are here and one of them actually hatched their eggs on my neighbor's balcony.

It was funny watching a few of my neighbors trying to heard these guys to the lake and avoiding the bites of the parents. Silly geese will lay eggs anywhere. Now I suspect these guys will grow up and start a nest on the balcony again.