Wednesday, June 09, 2021
Canadian Tiger Swallowtail butterfly
My neighbor Doug called and said one of the bird houses I had put up on his land had fallen down. He was willing to reinstall it but I wanted to see what caused the failure. Drove over and, as he said, the bird house was on the ground and there were two house sparrow eggs in it. I checked the other bird house there. It has tree swallows and their babies were just born and featherless yet. Thankfully they were OK. So - probably not an animal looking for a meal. Animals would have heard or smelled the baby birds and gone for them before the house w/ eggs. We had quite the thunderstorm last night but that shouldn't have been enough to dislodge the house. The pole and hanger were in good shape. Have never had this happen before. I cleaned out the downed box and reinstalled it. Was still thinking about it when I saw this butterfly flitting between orange hawkweed flowers growing in my lawn. Took a picture and made a mental note that it was time to mow.
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Beautiful shot!
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