Viceroy Butterfly In The High Desert
Previous Next Meet the Viceroy Butterfly! Pretty Butterfly right? I learned of this Butterfly actually on facebook….. a wildlife place was posting the difference of the Viceroy Butterfly, and the Monarch Butterfly. I thought it looked familiar, as if I had photographed the Viceroy Butterfly before. Sure enough when I came upon this photo album […]
Checkered Skipper Butterfly In The High Desert
Previous Next Meet the Checkered Skipper Butterfly! This skipper Butterfly is a common Skipper here in our area. The area in which I was for these photographs is a marshy area. If you are not careful where you step you may get wet! This is part of a gully that we have here in our […]
Butterfly On The Sweet William Flowers
Previous Next Meet the Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly we have here at the house in the High Desert of Oregon! Of course this species of Swallowtail are not just at our garden, but many places here in the High Desert! There were several of these Yellow Swallowtail Butterflies here at the house on this day , […]
Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly On The Lilac Flowers
Previous Next Meet the Yellow Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly we get here every year in our garden! This is probably the biggest butterfly we have here in our garden? This series of photographs of this butterfly was taken in May 12 of 2014 as the Lilacs were in bloom. I believe these Swallowtails emerge as butterflies […]
Oregon Red Admiral Butterfly
Previous Next Meet the Red Admiral Butterfly. These photographs were taken right here at home on the Raspberry leaves on June 6 , 2014. One thing to note, we grow the Raspberries around our small ponds where the Raspberries can get the water they need here in the High Desert of Oregon without having to […]
Skipper Butterfly on The Zinnia Flower
Previous Next Meet a Skipper Butterfly that visits our garden every year. Skipper Butterflies are called this for they flutter, or skip from place to place. Not always flowers but to feed the flowers are the place to find them! The Zinnia Flower patch of ours attracts many such creatures both big and small to […]
Painted Lady Butterfly in The High Desert
Previous Next Meet the Painted Lady Butterfly! This particular species of the Painted Lady is one of the many butterflies that has been showing up here at our home on the High Desert at least since 2012. I believe this Painted Lady is the Vanessa Cardui species. The Painted Lady Butterflies to my understanding is […]
Life Of The Gray Hairstreak Butterfly
Previous Next Meet the Gray Hairstreak Butterfly. If you have not been to my blog, or new to my blog then this butterfly is new to you. If you are a long time visitor to my photography and/or blog then this butterfly you should already know. The Gray Hairstreak Butterfly showed up here to the […]
White-lined Sphinx and the Foxglove Flowers
Previous Next Meet the White-lined Sphinx. I call them hummingbird moths, always have and wrong or not I can remember this name quite easily ha! I was already in the middle of my outside chores when this moth showed up at these Foxglove flowers in this part of the garden and it seamed to make […]
Time Spent With A Monarch Butterfly
Previous Next Most folks know of the Monarch Butterfly? If not meet the Monarch Butterfly! Here in our part of the high desert of Oregon we do not get many Monarch’s here at the house, but when we do I try my best to get some photographs! These photographs were taken in October of 2014. […]