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Beautiful visitors in my yard today.
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glendann
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:25 am Post subject: Beautiful visitors in my yard today. |
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I'm not sure what their names are but they are so pretty.
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petunia
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:34 am Post subject: |
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Very pretty glendann. The yellow ones we saw last spring it kept flying into my greenhouse as I had the door open.
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Sjoerd
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Wow... just look at those beauties! What a lucky one you are to get such pretty butterflies in your yard.
Looking outside here...I can hardly imagine it. The weather is getting worse and worse.
Thank you for showing these specimens. Truly gorgeous.
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toni
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Glenda,
The mostly yellow one is a Tiger Swallowtail and the other one looks like a Spicebush Swallowtail but I can't see the markings quite clear enough to be sure.
They are gorgeous, I can't wait until I start seeing my usual ones here this spring. So far we have the Cabbage White Butterfly and a Little Sulphur.
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eileen
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Beautiful butterflies Glenda. There's no way I'll be seeing anything as lovely fluttering around my garden as the weather is absolutely horrendous here at the moment. 
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glendann
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:44 am Post subject: |
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Thank you all and thank you for the names toni.I was watching them for a long time this evening .They were all
over the Carolina Jasmine.
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kuntrygal
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They are so pretty and remind us spring is only a little more than a week a way. I can't believe you always have your camera so ready!
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Palm Tree
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I have to agree with what Kuntrygal is saying - you have the Stew in you - always have a camera at hand.
Thank goodness for that -you manage to capture lovely animals that visit your garden. 
I am a bit scared to keep my camera at hand - (city-living and thieves being so 'resourceful') - by the time I get my camera ready - the visitors have gone.
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Droopy
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Those are fabulous! We probably won't have any for another couple of months, and nothing so colourful and big. Thanks for sharing them.
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glendann
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I'm so glad you all enjoyed them.I just keep my camera in a pocket or in my hand 
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Wrennie
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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Very pretty! I thought spicebush too Toni.
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Netty
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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Those are beautiful Glenda. It will be quite some time before I see anything fluttering in my yard.
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glendann
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Thanks Netty and Wrennie
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tschnath
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Glendann, how beautiful. I ususally just get the same old monarch butterflies. But my new garden space is going to be full of butterfly attracting plants and bushes so I'm hoping to have more this year. Thanks for sharing.
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islandgirl
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Great pics Glenda, you're lucky to have butterflies, I hardly see any here in Barbados...so strange.
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