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.
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| Common-checkered |
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| Cloudless Sulphur |
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| Common Buckeye - Rosa Form |
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| Eastern-tailed Blue |
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| Fiery |
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| Painted Lady |
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| Pearl Crescent |
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| Variegated Fritillary |
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 stopped by with lots of other birds last Friday plus on Sunday there was a Northern Harrier flyover.
Hermit Thrush Yard bird #62
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| Song Sparrow |
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| White-throated Sparrow |
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| Dark-eyed Junco |
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| Northern Harrier |
Fall in Cape May Point means migrating birds & butterflies. Here are some of the birds.
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| Osprey |
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| Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
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| Rusty Blackbird |
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| Northern Harrier |
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| Mute Swan |
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| American Wigeon |
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| Eastern Phoebe |
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| Palm Warbler |
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.
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| Center front garden from my former home |
Painted Lady 
Painted Lady 
Long-tailed 
Ocola 
Fiery 
American Lady
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| Monarch |
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| Red Admiral |
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| Ocola |
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| Black Swallowtail |
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| Long Tailed |
It's the Summer Olympics and our challenge was to make donation quilts using the colors in the Olympic rings. Did you know the colors represent all of the colors seen in all of the flags of the athletes countries. #SunshineQuilters #WrapASmile
2 Red-spotted Purple's eclosed this week a day apart. They were much smaller than I expected even when their wings were all pumped up plus much bluer in color which didn't photograph well.
I found this Polyphemus moth very early on Thursday morning on the grass. He was working on getting his wings pumped up. It's about 6" across and 3 1/2" down and quite beautiful with the eye spots. My neighbors have 2 of its host tree, birch & maple. They only live about a week as a moth. It's in the silk moth family. This was a first for me to see. I wonder if there are any more around.
