David and Ted (and the rest of us who love cool flying things!): I am thrilled and humbled to say that I saw one of these amazing creatures on Friday, July 3rd in my Littleton (south of Columbine HS) yard around 10:30 AM, but I had no idea what I was looking at. It emerged from under my ancient wooden deck, and slowly flapped around the yard, never landing long enough for me to get a good look at it. At first I thought it was the brownest butterfly I had ever seen, and it seemed to be tired, or dying; the flapping motion was incredibly slow. Then I thought it might be a sphinx moth, but the large critter vanished pretty quickly over a fence, and that was that. I truly wasn’t sure what I was looking at, until I saw this discussion.
And….I definitely saw a female. Interesting lore and history here: http://www.aquaticsportsadventures.com/Articles/Nature/Black_Witch_Moth/Black_Witch_Moth.html Good bird and moth watching to all! ~Anne Price Littleton -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/MWHPR07MB2752270FFA8A2EF67A57E868CF660%40MWHPR07MB2752.namprd07.prod.outlook.com.
