Overwintering Monarch butterfly on yellow flower
Ardenwood Historic Farm
Fremont, CA
01-13-12
I approached slowly hoping that one of the overwintering monarch butterflies would be on one of these flowers, (yellow preferred, but I would have been happy if it was on an orange one too!), but didn't want to get my hopes up. I was lucky (on this Friday the 13th) and there was one on my first choice of flowers! Now to get some shots before it flew away. It was 70 degrees and this was the only one on any flower there that I saw while I was there, so the butterflies that were away from the clusters (and there weren't many) were moving very quickly. I had hoped with the heat that there would be more flying around, but to my surprise, there weren't. I was so happy to get some shots of this beauty (some look like they've had a tough journey with torn wings, but not this one) before I got too close and it flew away, but I got the take off (see the last photo in the series below), so I was happy! =)
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