First Monarch

While I was focusing on the bees, a little flutter went past and landed on a coneflower: the first monarch butterfly of the season! (for me)

[Julie Ryan]

Pretty

[Barb]

Really lovely capture, Heather! Great DOF!

[Joanne Diochon]

He knows where to land to co-ordinate with his colours.

[Susan Klassen]

So wonderful you could capture this! Fav.

[Diana]

Hooray, you got such a fabulous shot of it! Wonderful detail and colours.

[Beryl Lloyd]

Wonderful shot and detail !

[bkb in the city]

Great capture

[Sue Cooper]

Oh how wonderful Heather. I shall enjoy your butterflies as we don’t seem to have any of our own either here on the very Fav.eastern edge of the country or back home on the very western edge. ( Ok I know it’s a small country 😂) Fav.

[carol white]

A beautiful butterfly and capture. Fav 😊

[haskar]

Lovely pov and shot.

[wendy frost]

How delightful to see this beautiful Monarch a great butterfly capture and the first of many more hopefully.

[Jeremy Cross]

Lovely photo with great dof and beautiful colours

[Jo Worboys]

Wonderful always love a 'firsr"

[Ingrid]

So nice! And a great sharp photo too! I still see some here... they should have been long gone. I have now trimmed my milkweed down.

[Heather]

@susiemc How odd, Sue! I hope they make an appearance soon for you (wherever you happen to be) :-)

[Heather]

@ingrid01 Thanks, Ingrid. I wonder why they are hanging around your area so long- climate change doesn't make sense (to me)

[Sue Cooper]

@365projectorgheatherb I think it’s because we’ve had so little sun this summer, all over the country.

[Heather]

@susiemc Oh, that makes sense :(