The unknown blue butterfly of my blog post of June 23 has now been identified and published in E Fauna. It is an Arctic blue (Plebejus glandon megals).

This second picture shows it feeding on coyote scat.

Another unknown, the yellow flowering plant shown in my post of June 27 has been identified as the now common invasive plant, Yellow Hawkweed. I am embarrassed that I did not recognize that one!

Yellow Hawkweed

This close-up picture was taken by Karen.