This afternoon a new Monarch was born. I got a phone call and dashed round through to my neighbors yard where they had noticed a freshly emerged Monarch climbing up a Rhododendron shrub. Quickly setting my camera and tripod I rattled off a few shots as she was drying her wings. She then began to climb up the shrub and had a little flight to a higher branch where she was opening and closing her wings. She needed a name to send her on her on her way, I suggested the name Elizabeth after QE II. We wish her a safe journey down to Mexico and look forward to seeing her again next year on her return.
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| Drying her wings. |
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| Climbing |
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| Ready for departure. |
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