Last week my husband and I took a trip to the Finger Lakes for a fun adventure to a new area we hadn’t explored much before. While we were there, we happily came across lots of different wildlife species, including several butterflies. While hiking into the fields (hills I should say!) owned by the bed and breakfast we were staying at, we came across about a half dozen or so monarch butterflies nectaring and resting. We also saw a few here and there flying through Watkins Glen State Park and near the International speedway as well, catching updrafts from winds blowing through the gorge or being generated from the cars driving around the track. It has been a tough past couple years for the monarchs, but it has been encouraging to see several thriving and migrating this year.
This individual, along with several others, was soaking up the sunshine, nectaring on nearby clover and hunkering down as the winds picked up.
