We had a bit of excitement this week on the farm!  The other evening, about dusk, the kids were playing basketball outside and Kerby found what he thought at first was a bird of some kind — turns out, it was a HUGE moth!!  Katie took a picture of it with her cell phone (teenagers are always prepared, aren’t they?) and she was able to look it up — in our 1964 farm copy of Butterflies and Moths - A Guide to the More Common American Species, by Robert T. Mitchell and Herbert S. Zim –

When it flew off, the kids said you could hear it’s wings flutter like a bird!  If anyone knows anything about this beautiful creature, send us an email — we’ve never seen one here before.

Notice the size of it compared to a 11 yr old child’s hand!