Mourning Cloak
Mourning Cloak
Just found a Mourning Cloak who let me pick it up with my finger! I just love seeing Mother Nature up close!
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Welcome to the mon@rch nature blog and I hope you join us in some of our nature adventures through the Allegany State Park area!
I am a naturalist, field biologist and nature photographer from the Western New York area. I have started exploring nature writing through this blog and it truly has been fun sharing my numerous adventures with everyone. Thanks to the many other authors that help me with my post and they will be sharing some of their nature explorations.
I have always had a latent interest in birds and photography and have been lucky enough to find time to explore these interests over the last few years. I am very thankful to the Cattaraugus County Bird Club for getting me started, sharing their wealth of knowledge and for their wonderful programs. And many thanks to Tom for letting me share some of my adventures and photos on the Monarch Nature Blog.
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A mourning cloak on your finger?!!! You are a wizard worthy of ‘arry Potter his self.
4 June 2009 at 3:40 pm
Hi Monarch- I wanted to invite you (and whomever else may be interested) over to my new blog. I have kept a caringbridge site for my daughter Ellie over the last 15 months during her cancer journey and I have found that it is really wonderful to have an outlet, to document life and to share with others. So, I started my own blog so I can do this for me. I still have Ellie’s website and she is doing absolutely fantastic – CANCER FREE AS OF LAST MONTH!
I have always checked in with your blog and love love love the photos and seeing your part of the country through your eyes. So I hope you don’t mind that I added you in my daily reads section. I hope others will be turned on to how beautiful the Allegany area is.
Here is my blog address – http://lifeappreciated.blogspot.com/
-Colleen 🙂
4 June 2009 at 3:59 pm
Monarch… the butterfly whisperer…. :c)
4 June 2009 at 5:46 pm
Sweet!!!!!
4 June 2009 at 6:27 pm
How did you do that?!? You definitely have a way with the wildlife! I’m going to have to call you St. Francis…lol.
4 June 2009 at 10:27 pm
That butterfly looks like it has wings of bark. Did you take the photo?
4 June 2009 at 11:20 pm
You’re not only a butterfly whisperer, you know. You get all the good shots and I’m talking ’bout the hummers, too.
4 June 2009 at 11:35 pm
Oh my gosh. Just where have your fingers been that a butterfly would take hold like that?? tee hee You are a lucky man getting to hold one of natures treasures. I saw one in our garden this morning but only had a glimpse of it before it flew into hiding.
5 June 2009 at 3:05 pm
Up close and personal to be sure.
As a sidenote, I was fortunate enough to spot a red tailed hawk the other day. Just a little update on the birding.
5 June 2009 at 8:38 pm
Lovely – I can imagine a Victorian lady swathed in black wearing a cloak that looks much like that.
6 June 2009 at 3:31 pm
Wow, great closeup of a beautiful bfly!
8 June 2009 at 2:44 pm
Very cool – and congrats on getting a picture of one (I think I read that you were psyched to finally have a photo).
12 June 2009 at 12:45 pm