Today on Backyard Visitors

"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck) 07/20/2020 at 09:05 • Filed to: None

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Today on Backyard Visitors, we have a Giant Swallowtail Butterfly, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . This one has seen better days and is probably near the end of its life. It was perched on my rubber boot on the back porch. After this picture, it flew away, proving it still has some life left.

The caterpillars look like bird poop. So, be careful t he next time you go to clean poop off your car. You might be squishing a beautiful butterfly.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/20/2020 at 09:19

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That’s cool. MANY MANY years ago we found a cecropia moth on the porch.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/20/2020 at 09:26

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That’s a nice one! I found a cecropia just last year.  My back yard is a popular place with the critters. I’m not sure why. We don’t have any feeders and we don’t even have any flowers planted back there this year. We do have a pecan tree, but that’s about it.

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/say-hello-to-my-cecropian-friend-1833958526

vondon302 > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/20/2020 at 09:27

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Neat, that’s a big boi.

Walked down to the boat launch last nite for the golden sunset and scared up a fox on the way back. Unfortunately this is the best pic I got of him.

TheRealBicycleBuck > vondon302 07/20/2020 at 09:34

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Although I’ve only lived on a lake for a few months, those were some of the best months. My ideal situation would be on a lake with a float plane. That would be the best.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/20/2020 at 09:37

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Sorry, not my photo.

Hey, I commented on that post! With the same story!

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/20/2020 at 09:38

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The wheel in the sky keeps on turning.

vondon302 > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/20/2020 at 09:41

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Im on a dead end street about 5 houses off the lake. I’d love to live on a lake but the taxes are crazy. Not cheap either but most nice things aren’t.

We actually get quite alot of float planes coming and going here, now the float plane life would be living the dream.

XJDano > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/20/2020 at 09:46

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T his dude just stopped by.

TheRealBicycleBuck > XJDano 07/20/2020 at 09:57

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Neat! We never leave our small dog outside alone because of fellows like that. We’ve seen some hawks nesting nearby and we hear owls at night, though we’ve never seen them. 

shop-teacher > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/20/2020 at 10:27

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That's a biggun!

shop-teacher > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/20/2020 at 10:29

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We spotted a couple of small owls on our power lines last week. The cat was staring at them from the safety of our enclosed porch.

user314 > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/20/2020 at 11:06

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farscythe - makin da cawfee! > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/20/2020 at 14:30

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O.o

we dont get butterflys that size here.....yet...