One close and one a little further away. The first is a family of swans on a pond near where I was doing a butterfly count the other weekend. These are not your Mute Swans found in city parks and the like; these are Trumpeter Swans.
Second shot is of a visitor that's been a little rare this year- a Monarch butterfly. We haven't seen too many of them this year, and the ones that have appeared on the Swamp Milkweed in the back yard have been feeding but I haven't seen any of them laying eggs yet. When that happens the caterpillars grow at an unbelievable rate- before you know what's happened several of the milkweed plants have been decimated and we start finding the chrysalises here and there. I'm guessing at least 35 of them emerged in our yard last year and headed south.
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