Following my clues we had a second round of guesses,
I have to give Jennifer part marks, it is colourful, there is a wing in the image. But alas it is not a parrot, and there is no rock in sight.
Anne and Kathy guessed an eye. I can so see that! If I didn’t know what it was I would be with you and guessing eye too.
Dawn was more restrained this time, which kind of takes some of the fun out of it all :-)
Alas she was still wrong it isn’t a plant (although there is some plant in the whole piccie).
Which brings us to… drum-roll please…
Carolyn V’s guess of “butterfly”
Well done Carolyn you’ve nailed it!
This fellow is a Cairns Birdwing Butterfly (Ornithoptera euphorion)
It is my piccie, but it was an easy capture. I snapped it in the Butterfly House here in Melbourne. He is an Oz native, but not from this neck of the woods. The Cairns Birdwing is from the rainforests in Australia’s tropical north, 2900 km (1800 miles) away from here. At 15 cm (6 inches) across they are the largest butterfly in Oz .
