A Treasure Trove Of Wings II

What's a blogger to do if Blogger is bent on not letting her format her

posts? Should I write on the Comments section or post the text

separately? I chose the latter even if it makes me feel somewhat

foolish it's better post than wait for weeks (maybe) for the technical

snag to vanish!

With thirty tomato plants firmly in the ground (in my backyard) and

some eggplants in several pots, there's hardly anything that I need to

do in my ribbony strip of land. So I headed over to my sister's house

yesterday to photograph birds. She lives in a neighbourhood that's been

inhabited for a longer period than mine. One look at the trees and you

know how ancient that place is!

It helped that a house in the vicinity was uninhabited, derelict, and the

once flourishing garden was going to seed. But as I stood there with my

camera with the lizards, and myriad butterflies all flitting on the blooms

of the most invasive weeds of our region, the thought of leaving certain

areas wild in one's garden made much sense to me. Although the birds

weren't many yesterday,there were wings galore. I even saw a bee-like

insect with vivid colours, one that I had never seen before.

As for the lizards (I'm posting only one photo), many of them seemed

to be happy basking in the reluctant warmth of a wintry sun. And the

lizard with Attitude almost seemed to say..."Come on! This is where the

eagles dare and I need to go back before they fly over and hang out on

that tall tree there!" And a fine specimen it was! Others paled into

insignificance beside her:)

Here's a list of what I photographed. There are many more photos but

I'm keeping those for two reasons. The first is that I've posted the images

quite a few times so I don't want to bore you with the same species, the

Pansy varieties, for example. The second is for the lean season:) If that

comes at all!!! So here we go............

1. Parrot pecking at a guava in my sister's garden

2. Eagle on a tall tree in the neighbour's yard

3. The same eagle

4. A sparrow-like bird commonly seen in gardens

5.Lizard with Attitude

6. Common Gull butterfly

7.Crimson-tailed Marsh Hawk dragonfly

8.One of the Satyrs

9.Plain Tiger butterfly

10. Another satyr

11. Common Castor butterfly

12. An unidentified bee-like bug

13. The same

14. Common pierrot butterfly

I hope you liked seeing some of the wildlife of this neighbourhood. Please

check out the last post for the images.