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Monthly Archives: March 2010

White Ibis Eating Crawfish

Here’s some additional pictures from Brazos Bend State Park. This was actually an accidental picture.  I was just trying to take a picture of a White Ibis.  It wasn’t until I got home and started reviewing the pictures that I noticed that this bird had caught a Crawfish. In this first picture, you can just…

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Where Are The Monarchs?

By all accounts, the Monarchs from Mexico should be arriving any day now (in Houston).  This current generation of Monarchs have been through a pretty rough life.  They come all the way down from Canada to their wintering grounds in Mexico.  This year the smallest population ever was observed (1.92 hectares versus the average of…

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Butterfly And Hummingbird Garden 2010

I thought some folks might find this helpful to get some ideas for their own Butterfly and/or Hummingbird Garden. This is just one section of the yard, but it’s where I try and place the majority of my nectar plants for both the Butterflies and Hummingbirds. On the left side of the picture is the…

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Another Eastern Black Swallowtail Hatches After 6 Month Hibernation

We had another Eastern Black Swallowtail hatch today after about 6 months in the Chrysalis stage. I took this one out once the sun was out and let it warm up on the Rosemary plant we have. He/She simply opened their wings towards the sun and warmed up a bit before flying off.  Traditionally these…

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Eastern Black Swallowtail Hatches After Six Months

Leecy and I have had this collection of Eastern Black Swallowtail Chrysalises since October 2009.  I had previously read that occasionally some of these Butterflies don’t hatch out of their Chrysalises until the following Spring.  That seemed like an awful long time for these Butterflies to stay in the Chrysalis stage, but what did I…

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