More monarch adventures
As I posted on Sunday, we released the first of our seventeen butterflies that we are raising from caterpillars we found on our milkweed...
Anna's hummingbird feasting on nectar in the front yard
An Anna's hummingbird had a nectar feast on these plants that are growing on one side of the front yard, all in a row. In the top photo...
First monarch emerged from its chrysalis yesterday
The first chrysalis from our current group of monarch caterpillars emerged yesterday! It was in chrysalis mode for 14 days. The photo...
In search of milkweed for the hungry caterpillars
As you can imagine, seventeen monarch caterpillars can eat a lot of milkweed. We only had the two narrow leaf milkweed plants....
Life with the monarch caterpillars
Happy monarch caterpillar munching on the base of a milkweed leaf Today three more monarch caterpillars developed in chrysalides. Now we...
Migrating geese
Late yesterday afternoon I heard bird calls nearby. I looked up at the sky to see this. A flock of Canadian geese flying by. I thought...
Grasshopper on the apricot cosmos
The apricot cosmos plant is now in bloom. I thought it never would. All that fern-like foliage that I regularly watered, and no sign of...
Still blooming in the front yard
The California native plants are definitely the survivors in our front yard. After several heat waves, and for this time of year, most of...
Anna's hummingbird discovers the foxglove
The "Polkadot Pippa" foxglove Digitalis hybrid that I planted from a seedling this year in late spring is starting to bloom. It still is...
And even more monarch caterpillars!
So I was just checking the second narrow leaf milkweed plant on the patio, and look what I discovered. More monarch caterpillars! This is...
