Butterflies at Edinburgh and Santa Ana

    What a grand day of butterflying!          Monarchs,  Queens, Admirals, Crescents,  

      Crimson Patch .  .  .   Old friends and new.

                  

                                                   Monarchs                

 Crimson Patch  

                                     















                                                Checkered White

               Pearl Crescent                                                          Pale-banded Crescent

                                                                                                                   Southern Dogface

Birds were scarce or hunkered down again.  But it was a very butterfly or flutterby afternoon in Edinburgh on Thursday.  Both today and yesterday was partly cloudy, humid and winds to 20 mph.  The highlight was the numbers of butterflies and two Zebra Heliconia. They fluttered by me many times but did not light. At Santa Ana the lowlights were a Gulf Flitillary and a beat up Common Mestra.  

Queens

                            Large Yellow

                                 Melana

 White Peacock

                                                                   Gulf Flitillary

                                                             Common Mestra

                                             
                                     Variegated Meadowhawk Dragon Fly