Date:         Sun, 16 May 2010 15:55:37 EDT
Reply-To:     Swallowtailfarms@AOL.COM
Sender:       Georgia Birders Online <GABO-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Hal Massie <Swallowtailfarms@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Catbirds and swallowtail 'cats' (Crawford County)
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I have a pair of gray catbirds nesting
in the large Burford holly near the front
corner of my house.  Today, while outside
digging a new flowerbed, I noticed one
of the catbirds on the ground beside
another flowerbed.  It would hop up,
flutter beside a big clump of bronze fennel,
then fly off to the holly.

I went over and looked at the fennel and
it was covered with small black swallowtail
caterpillars.  Some of those caterpillars are
being converted to baby catbirds!

See...if you plant a butterfly garden, you
are also planting a bird garden...and a moth
garden...and a bat garden...and a bee garden...
and a hummingbird garden...ad infinitum...

Hal Massie
Musella, Georgia
Crawford County
Non calor sed umor  est qui nobis incommodat

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