Continuing Butterflies

 Nine species of butterflies seen here today with 3 new species. 

Orange Sulfur

Pearl Crescent

Monarch

My Yard ~ Butterflies

 Shocked and excited to have a Long-Tailed Skipper fly out of a large bushy lantana I was watering.  Also had an Ocola here along with 8 other species of butterflies.  This is really great for the end of October in a drought year.  We haven't had a freeze here yet so I still have zinnia's blooming though many of them are dyeing.  I have still been watering due to the drought.

Lantana

Zinnia

Sachem

Fiery

Long-tailed

Ocola

Ocola

Cabbage White

Orange Sulphur

Fiery

Clouded Sulphur

Common Buckeye

 

My Yard ~ Recent Butterflies

 Seen in my yard. Past few sunny days of low winds & temps 78-82 degrees has kept the butterflies going. 11 species of butterflies still flying including a Monarch, several Common-checkered, several Pearl Crescents and more. ID's below the pictures.

Common-checkered

Cloudless Sulphur

Common Buckeye - Rosa Form

Eastern-tailed Blue

Fiery

Painted Lady

Pearl Crescent

Variegated Fritillary

My Yard ~ Birds

 Today, was a fun day in the yard with returning White-throated & Song Sparrows and Dark-eyed Junco's.  There was also a new yard bird - Hermit Thrush which is yard bird #62.

Also, this month we've had 2 other new yard birds. First, several Yellow-rumped Warbler (#61) stopped by with lots of other birds last Friday plus on Sunday there was a Northern Harrier (#60) flyover.

Hermit Thrush Yard bird #62

Song Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Northern Harrier #60

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Donation Quilts

 Just before the painter arrived, I quilted 9 donation tops. Then, while my house was being painted, I stayed in my sewing room binding them. Now, they are ready to be mailed. Here are the quilts. 23 quilts donated so far for 2024. I have another 5 tops waiting to be quilted & bound. For the painting, I had the ceilings, walls & woodwork done. It looks great. Left to paint is the master bedroom & bath (but for me that's my sewing room) where I want to put in 2 more windows

Fall in Cape May, NJ ~ Birds

 Fall in Cape May Point means migrating birds & butterflies. Here are some of the birds.

Osprey

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Rusty Blackbird

Northern Harrier

Mute Swan

American Wigeon

Eastern Phoebe

Palm Warbler

Cape May, NJ Trip - Butterflies

 I had a super few days in Cape May last week. Here are some of the 15 species of butterflies I saw while there. I sure wish I'd seen more Monarch's but I saw really great numbers of Ocola's, Long-tailed and Fiery's to make up for the Monarch's.

I had a super few days in Cape May last week. Here are some of the 15 species of butterflies I saw while there. I sure wish I'd seen more Monarch's but I saw really great numbers of Ocola's, Long-tailed and Fiery's to make up for the Monarch's.

Center front garden from my former home

Painted Lady

Painted Lady

Long-tailed

Ocola

Fiery

American Lady

Monarch

Red Admiral

Ocola

Black Swallowtail

Long Tailed