Taken at Santa Cruz Botanical gardens in Tenerife. Fantastic place that was built on top the islands landfill site only 30 years ago. Lovely way to spend an afternoon.
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Monarch
They were bloody big and a lot of them. Thats a 4x4 post it’s perched on.
Yeah, I’ve been to Michoacán, Mexico and had 17 million of them swarming around me.
I’ve got a couple of them somewhere - dead ones I collected from the ground and pressed into my notebook.
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Just read up on them, 2800 mile migration from NA to Mexico. Astonishing!
I’ve seen a few in *Britain. So how the hell do they manage to cross the Atlantic???
*Isles of Scilly
With the wind in the right direction I doubt they have a lot of choice. 
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It was probably the wing-beat of one of them which caused the wind to blow that way in the first place.
So they’ve only got themselves to blame.
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Spot the deer . . .
Bit easier, but his two mates are still tough to find . . .
To the left . . .
Young male whitetail deer hang out in small groups until they’re strong enough to begin challenging for females.
Mourning Cloak butterfly . . .
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Was out fishing 
Broke off a massive trout just as I was preparing to tail it, 13-15lb range. Gutted I didn’t get a pic of it, beautiful Steelhead in gorgeous spawning colours.
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FoL#2 & gf are having a fine old time eating all the deli sandwiches they can find in NYC. Some of the sandwiches do look great but I really like these two pics.
Apart from the thin skyscraper this could be from any time in the last 50 years.
Katz’s Deli
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Absolutely outstanding Nial 
That’s very kind of you…thanks!
Some ancient dwarf lives there, probably forging a mystic blade!
Give him a ring, why don’t you!
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Wow, i thought it was an oil painting. Wonderful picture.
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Awesome picture. Gives an amazing sense of scale.
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Thanks…I did have to hang around for about an hour until the light did that, but I thought the colour on the snow dusting, when it came, was worth it.
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Thank you…that building, which gives the scale, is an incline drumhouse, had a roof until a few years ago. But is more photogenic without it IMHO. Just it’s going to deteriorate fast now.