{"id":8946,"date":"2016-06-22T08:22:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T12:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=8946"},"modified":"2016-06-22T08:22:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T12:22:44","slug":"another-swallowtail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=8946","title":{"rendered":"Another Swallowtail"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. Sargentville Maine<\/p><\/div>\n

Are you tired of Swallowtails yet? I have never seen as many Eastern Tiger Swallowtails as there were flying on the Blue Hill peninsula on the Maine coast this past weekend. In fact, in four days I saw way more Swallowtails than I have seen in the total of my life up to that point. They were crossing the roads, hovering over fields, among the trees of the forest, on the rocky beaches…everywhere. If you sat still anywhere outside for more than 5 minutes you were almost guaranteed to see one float by. They were particularly fond of a patch of Lupine and Wallflower growing in corner of the yard where my daughter’s wedding was held. I saw as many as a dozen at once working the patch, and there were at least a couple every time I chanced by. Since they were actively feeding among the Wallflower, they were relatively easy to photograph…and I brought back a lot of Swallowtail pics. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Sony RX10iii at 840mm equivalent (600mm with an in-camera crop to 10mp for the extra reach). 1\/800th @ ISO 100 @ f4. Processed in Lightroom.<\/p>\n

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