Sunday, August 4, 2013

A different Swallow for once!

Spotted on the lavender bushes outside the Walnut Store gite, this beautiful Swallowtail butterfly, although its actual swallow tail was not that prominent apart from on the left wing, there have been lots more on the bushes today with all their tails so maybe this is a youngster.
As for the Swallows of the 'winged' variety, all the 2nd brood of young ones have now fledged, so two broods each in two nests have produced a total of at least 18 swallows.
Yesterday was one of our busiest days of the year, a complete turn around of the house plus the gites, 7am we started and finished at 4pm, so you can imagine after us both working 9 hours non stop in 30 degrees of heat, how nice it was in between greeting our new guests a swim in the pool was!

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