Today I posted a couple of photos from a day trip I took to the Baxter Conservation Area on the Rideau River. I went hoping to find Silver-bordered Fritillary in the butterfly meadow at Baxter and it was among the most abundant species flying with 12 individuals within 50 meters of a couple of picnic tables in the middle of the meadow. The photos I took were my first for Silver-bordered Fritillary and this was my best photo.
 
I also had one Atlantis Fritillary and plenty of the common species for this time of year: Least Skipper, Northern Crescent, Clouded Sulphur, and Common Ringlet. At the far end of the conservation area, in a 4 acre arboretum of rare nut trees, I had the unexpected sighting of many fresh Tawny-edged Skippers, a species whose flight season is long over but have been known to have second generations.