Monday, August 26, 2013

2013: Week of August 18th – 24th


Bountiful butterflies

       More visuals than text this week as the butterflies are out in full force and in truth are soooooo much more easily photographed than my usual avian fare.  All of today’s images were captured at the butterfly garden at Stonykill Environmental Farm in Wappingers Falls.  The beautiful sunlit gardens were as attractive to this photographer as they were to the butterflies and I ended up spending a fair amount of time wandering through the beds and maneuvering around to get just the right lighting conditions and hopefully finding those specimens that were not too much the worse for wear.  Below is the collection of images from this day’s outing.

Great spangled fritillary

Pearl crescent pair

Tiger swallowtail

Pearl crescent

Gret spangled fritillary

Black swallowtail



Monarch butterfly



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