Backyard nature: These tigers don’t roar

From David Cohen, more wonderful photos of the natural world just outside our doorsteps:

I passed colorful fluttering on my daily walks with our dog that seemed to concentrate on a particular corner and bush. At last I brought my camera.

From Erna Marcus, longtime Murch Elementary School teacher and neighborhood naturalist, I learned that I was seeing Eastern tiger swallowtail butterflies. When I looked them up online, I found out their focus was on a butterfly bush, a name I had no trouble remembering! Here are three portraits from that bush.

Eastern tiger swallowtail. (Photos (c) David Cohen, <a href=
Eastern tiger swallowtail. (Photos (c) David Cohen, davidcohenphotodc.com)

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Read more about the tiger in your yard.

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Some of the other wildlife Cohen has captured with his camera: new life at Broad Branch Stream; fawns and their watchful mother; a barred owl that took a moment to pose.

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