Please show off all the visitors to your garden, stories welcome too.
Let all see your garden visitors
I call this photo ''Shadow of the assassin''
A very happy bee
I guess she is doing more than just visiting
My first cat on the bronze fennel. I hope for more I left a lot of fennel grow this year.
Here's mine.
Eastern Tailed Blue
Swallowtail about to alight.
Swallowtail on Echinacea
Praying Mantis on Lily
same spider in more a conventional pose:
Spider ( this pic should have been loaded before the one above...)
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I have lots of these little white butterflies.
I call this one "Pollination in Progress".
Here is "Bringing out the Orange".
This picture is of a garden foe, but I still think it's a cool pic. This one is called "Plague of Locusts".
This little guy has lived in a hanging house plant I have outside which is at least 2 - 2 1/2 feet off the ground. How he gets in and out of there is a mystery as it's quite a jump. He takes off to go find something to eat but always comes back to the same plant in the same spot. I have really enjoyed looking for him in his plant all summer.
This guy followed me around all day one day and really enjoyed me taking his picture :)
This guy was in a "fur coat" but BOY could he jump!
He was very camera shy and got quite annoyed with me asking to please stand still....just for a second *lol*
I have found that these guys really enjoy having their pictures taken but you have to be quick *lol*
Here is another one. It looks a bit different than the previous one so I'm not sure if it is a different species or if it means they are male/female. They seemed to stay around the gardens later into the season this year than I have noticed in the past :)
Not sure what type of bird but sure looked nice against the blue sky. Was a little camera shy so I ended up with lots of scratches trying to keep up with him in the woods with my camera *lol*
Great pics, everyone! Love the thread idea!
I've had some pretty good luck this summer with my butterflies--here are a couple of Eastern Tiger Swallowtails on the verbena 'bonarienses' (which I wintersowed from collected seed).
Now I know why my milkweed has no lower leaves! I thought it was just loss from aphids but then I caught this guy eating them. Who knew? I love him/her!
He certainly has that ''caught in the act'' look
Fun pic, konkrete! Maybe he'll turn into a very special butterfly!
Nice variety of photos. I'll try to find subjects not posted.
Skipper
goldfinch
Red Admiral
Yellowjacket
This guy stayed all day until I walked by one too many times too close to his roost. Doesn't he understand I need to water my flowers???
Oops! It's a Praying Mantis.
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This is a roadrunner that found breakfast in my yard a few weeks ago. (taken thru the window) I didn't know bunnies ate milkweed OR roadrunners ate other birds!
Wow, I didn't know that about roadrunners either. Kind of shocking! At my house, they eat lizards :-)
What cool pics everyone is posting. I agree - GREAT thread idea!
karen
Busy as a bee, there were 6 all buzzing the same stand of phlox.
Here'a Monarch visiting my Butterfly bush
A Swallowtail on a zinnia........
I like this picture because, as I was trying to get a shot of the monarch, just below him , I also got a swallowtail !!
Bee.......
And the zinnia again. seems to be every one's favorite,,,,,,,,,,
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