April 24, 2025 – The yard is alive!

So, not a lot to report today, but it seems that our yard is alive again with butterfly and bird activity!

After a really nice day outside with full sun, upper 60’s (or higher) and little breeze, I shouldn’t be surprised what I found this afternoon. Walking around with the dog, we came across an American Lady butterfly on dandelion. I only had my phone on me so I got a blurry shot of it before it took off. Usually they come back. This one didn’t. A crappy pic is better than no pic… sort of.

Thinking it may come back, I went in and got the camera. A short while later, I was very surprised to see an American Copper! Not that is is really THAT early for them, but my records over the past 5 years has them only showing up this early in 2022 (also April 24th) and most not until the beginning of May.

Later on I saw something zip through the yard and I had a feeling it was our first hummingbird. It eventually came down to the feeder. A male ruby throated hummingbird for sure! Always fun to see them return.

It’s always great to see the yard come back to life after a long winter!