hummingbird moth

Fun photos

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A couple of fun photos to share with you today.

This one is from yesterday, after picking my daughter up from work.  She rescued a snowberry clearwing moth, aka hummingbird moth, while at the pharmacy.

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Then it just sort of chilled on her hand and didn’t want to leave! :-D

I got this one just a few minutes ago.  I noticed the water in the cat bowls outside was completely gone (it was another hot one, today, and the bowls are right in the sun), when I came out to see why Beep Beep was being so talkative.

After filling the bowls, I looked around for her and found her…

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I guess she didn’t want to wait! :-D

I don’t think I’ve ever seen any birds use that thing.  Maybe now I know why! :-D

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Little Critter Friends

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I thought I got some pictures of how the area near the firepit looks, after my daughters raked, but apparently, I didn’t.

So, instead, I stole a couple of pictures my older daughter took. :-D

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While they were raking, they got visited by two wood frogs.  This one, and one that jumped right into a downspout.  I neglected to steal her pictures of a blurry frog butt in a tunnel. ;-)

She also managed to get a good picture of one of these guys…

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They have a distinctively shrimp-like body, and are really big!  They are also hard to get pictures of, they move so much.  They just LOVE this lilac bush by the house.  They are Snowberry Clearwing Moths, also called hummingbird moths.  They do sound like hummingbirds, and are almost as big as the one variety of hummingbirds we have in our area.

Meanwhile, I added the bird seed I found to the feeder and stand we’ve put near the living room window.  The birds are just starting to discover it, and I hope to get photos, soon.  I also saw a deer last night, just quickly passing through our yard.  All I managed was one blurry photo before it ran off.  Good to know they are still willing to come by, even with all the yard activity these days. :-)

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