A Preying (Praying?) Mantis.
Looks like it flew in on a spaceship, doesn't it?
It does have some very impressive wings.

I looked out this evening and saw it sitting on almost on exactly the same branch
of the butterfly bush where I took the picture of the finch a few days ago.

Whoa. These things are HUGE.
I ended up running back inside to get my wide-angle lens just so I could fit its whole body
into one frame, but this one without the wide-angle turned out the best.
No post-processing performed except for cropping.

(His left antenna looks broken but it's not really; it just meandered out of the DoF range)