Wildlife: New Cardinal Family - Part 2 in Series, 1 by DreamOfSpring

DreamOfSpring wrote:
As I rather liked the photo, I tried my luck at zooming in closer. Again pleased, I got the photo below. As I was marvelling at the beautiful pattern of the tiger swallowtail, I suddenly noticed an annomally in his stripes...or was it...I looked closer, thinking it must be a mirage perhaps due to overlapping of part of the wing...but, no, it was really there...and then I realized that this was, in fact, the same butterfly that had managed to escape from the beak of the mockingbird only a few days prior. Look closely, and you will see the "bite" missing from the bottom portion of the wings and some holes on the right wing.

He made it!