Welcome to the 12th edition of Windows on Wildlife! If you have a recent post about wildlife you’d like to share – it can be anything: birds, insects, mammals – scroll down to the end of the post and add your site; a compilation of all additions will be posted the following week. Please don’t forget to link back here (I’d love it if you’d add the Windows on Wildlife button on the sidebar to your post) and visit other blogs that have articles to share. Thanks for stopping by!
When I came across this photo within a series of butterfly shots Obo took while at the Butterfly Place, I found myself struck by both the symmetry and asymmetry in this photo. To the point where I lost any interest in knowing more about the species I was looking at (which for me, is pretty rare). I was just fascinated looking at these two beautiful butterflies, letting my eye wander and find what was alike and what wasn’t between the two. It’s not the clearest, crispest photo, but there’s something about it just the same that makes it perfect the way it is.
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We had a nice variety of articles in last week’s edition of Windows on Wildlife. Gary and Boomer from the Vermilon River shared some incredible bird photos, including a very intense look from a Grackle, and an interestingly hunched raven (I love ravens…). If you haven’t seen Gary’s photos before, be sure to stop by his blog – he takes some amazing pictures. Another Jennifer had a stow-away grasshopper on her trip down to NY last week, and shared a newly coined term: ‘hunk of ducks’. Be sure to use that with your birding friends. Fergiemoto took some amazing pics of hummingbirds in flight – no easy trick! Michelle at Rambling Woods is raising butterflies this summer, and she shared her post on the progress of the Spicebush Swallowtail she has (had?) as a caterpillar. It would be a terrifying creature to encounter if you’re caterpillar-sized, what with those fake eye-spots. And Jenny at Just Photos by Me had some beautiful, graceful photos of bees among lavender. I was partial to the last photo; let Jenny know which one you like best!
Many thanks to our contributors from last week. If you have a wildlife post to share, add it through the link-in below, and we’ll publish your post in next week’s edition!
What a cool picture! I’ve never seen two butterflies positioned like that. They almost look like they are posing!
Isn’t that neat? I could look at them indefinitely.
That is such a cool photo…it does look like they were posed…
I agree! Or were posing…