Butterflies

The most numerous and easiest butterfly to see in the meadow is the Tiger Swallowtail.

Red Admirals have been around.

Here is the male black swallowtail.

Even the Monarchs have been nectaring on the bergamot.  Interesting that it is almost finished blooming in the back meadow, and now just at its prime in the front meadow.

And today I photographed this beautiful fresh male spicebush hiding in the grass.  But I have not been able to photograph the one eastern tailed-blue.  They need clover which was blasted with the herbicide, frizzled with the drought and sizzled with the heat.  Poor little blue butterflies.