Garden Pic Wednesday: Tiger Swallowtail!
Garden Pic of the Day is a large female Tiger Swallowtail on my yellow Lantana! You can recognize it's female by the blue spots; males don't have the blue. Females can also be "black form" with all black wings with blue markings, but there body remains striped. I've seen both. The yellow and black female like this is far more spectacular looking! And a nice picture of a Mockingbird Nest This nest is old; the brood long gone. It's in a Gardenia at about shoulder level, so easy to see. I wanted to get a picture of it before removing. Mockingbirds do an elaborate weaving of sticks for their nest; the center is of soft grasses. And finally, a strange visitor found it's way into my back yard.... Yes, it's a parakeet. He showed up on Sunday, 1 August. It seems odd to me that right after the house across from me is abandoned by it's renters and the owners show up to clean things out---I have bird that can't hardly fly in my back yard? I fed him Sunda...