It is the season...Swallowtails are here.....

[curious kat]

....we've been getting these guys in the garden, there's been 4 Tiger Swallowtails, a few black Swallowtails and the beautiful Monarchs are starting to show up.









....they make me feel happy, hope you guys enjoy them...

 

[TJE]

Wow CK...wild colors in these pics, nice! The Monarchs are the prominent ones around The Great Lakes here, then head your way (migrate south for the winter/just like alot of our birds!

 

[ronwoodcraft]

WoW!! These are Beautiful!! Great Job!!

 

[packerbacker]

nice pics kat! What camera you got?

 

[vpnavy]

Nice photographs! Thanks for sharing...

 

[texasred777]

As always: Great pictures; almost like you took professional pictures from a magazine and posted them! Really great how you managed to get the brilliance and the vibrant colors! We didn't see a lot of swallowtails in central Texas. There were quite a few; but just never seemed to be more than one or two around. Now the Monarchs were a different story! When they arrived, there were some plants/trees that attracted them. We have an Arizona Ash tree in the front yard that sometime would be so covered that you could hardly see any of the trunk.

 

[PamDF]

Awwee I love butterflies

 

[tamrock]

That's wonderful and such brilliant colors. Was this all in your flower garden?

 

[Meadow]

Wow, the colours! Butterflies on acid! We have a few black swallowtails here now but some years I don't see any.

 

[curious kat]

Really TJE?....I'll be waiting for the "northern" Monarchs to show up then. We do get some hatching here also, can I say "hatching" sounds weird!?

Thanks ronwoodcraft, packerbacker (it's a Nikon Coolpix), vpnavy and PamDF.

texasred....promise I didn't get them out of a mag. ...and WOW Monarchs that covered a tree trunk, that's a lot! I've seen pictures like that taken in Mexico before.

Yes tamrock, all in the flower garden & I've got a lot more...lol

Meadow....don't know why but we have more Tigers (5) than the Black ones & the Black ones are more skittish. The Tigers almost land on you, very friendly.

 

[old digger]

Isn't Gods' creations beautiful? Awesome pictures!

 

[curious kat]

Yes old digger....the hand of the Creator is truly awesome!

...wanted to add these to the post, finally got the two together!