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A few Kingbirds and Baltimore Orioles have found their way back to Vermont, and Oven birds are calling from the woods behind my house.

Common Sulphur butterflies (medium sized, yellow bordered with black) seem to be dividing the fields into Lepidoteran fiefdoms, and the first of the Tiger Swallowtail butterflies (large, yellow with black stripes, tailed) can be found in warmer locations.

Bugle (an alien member of the mint family) in putting out powder blue flowers in stark contrast to its leaves which are often bronze or deep purple.

John