Part III -- The many butterflies on Pinto Creek near Brackettville

I'm too tired to type in all the names of the individual butterflies you see here, but you can look down my sidebar to see what they are--I've identified nearly every butterfly I've shot in my sidebar.

Below: The Zebra made an appearance again! This is all it would let me catch though. I found him in exactly the same spot on the farm that I found yesterday's Zebra on, which is a spot of flowers in shade very close to the water. Makes me wonder if the Zerbra doesn't like water more than most butterflies. Most of the other butterflies preferred other spots along the creek.

Above: It's driving me nuts trying to figure out what this butterfly's wings look like. It reminds me of some kind of candy (I can't remember what it could have been though), maybe something I used to get when I was a kid in Eagle Pass. But that was the early 70's so maybe the pattern and color just reminds of me the style that was popular then?

Above and Below: I don't have a single good shot of a Monarch with it's wings open (yet). The one above was a long shot I took of several clumping butterflies and this one was flying in to join them. It was very dark and the resolution is poor, I had to do a lot of editing to brighten it up. Imagine what I could have done with a tele-converter! Oh how I wish! Below, the sheer weight of them pulls the flowers and grasses they land on right down, makes it hard to shoot them full on with their wings open.

All of the 10-11-08 Monarch Migration and Pinto Farm Pix can be seen HERE.