Monarch Migration......

On their way to Mexico

I have written about it numerous times but I couldn't prove it until today.  We came home from church  and besides all of the butterflies that we had seen on the road as we drove home we found them all over our apple trees.  I think probably some years we just don't notice and so they quietly come by, rest and move on without our noticing them.

This year they were very prominent in color in large groups in the trees. We had to bundle up to protect oneself from mosquitoes to get any shots. I am glad we both took the shots when we did as a rain and wind came up about an hour later.  I could see them hanging tough but they moved to the south side of the bushes and trees. I was about ready to throw my point and shoot into the pond, but I did get ten percent of them to look great.  My wife's camera got some good shots as she can zoom in with her camera.

They didn't hit my coneflowers or the flowering sedum plants.  They just landed and rested peacefully.  When a new butterfly would land among a group of them all of them would open their wings all at the same time then close them back up again.  I could not get that photo but I sure tried.