Hummingbird and Monarch
by Karen Adams
Title
Hummingbird and Monarch
Artist
Karen Adams
Medium
Photograph - Fine Art Digital Prints - Photography
Description
It was a very quiet morning late July. I was sitting in my screened porch working my usual Sudoku puzzle when I just seemed to hear a call to go outside. I took my camera and walked around for quite a while. I saw a bunny rabbit and took some pictures. I saw some cattails that I thought were cool looking and took more pictures. Finally I came back home and just stood for a few minutes looking at my garden. Suddenly I noticed an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on a tall verbena flower. Then I saw another one. Then I saw a Monarch and soon another Monarch fluttered about. None of them seemed to want their pictures taken. They would light for just seconds and then fly off.
I got some exercise in chasing these guys all around my yard! Finally one Monarch discovered a white butterfly bush and kept returning to it. . . so I stood there and snapped some shots. To my great delight, this cute little Hummingbird also liked this specific flower and she and the Monarch played a game chasing each other away, trying to claim it for their own. I'm really not sure I can say who had the upper hand, but their dance was sure fun to watch.
I hope to be adding a few more images of this special moment in my garden!
Thank you so much for looking at my images. I appreciate that very much.
I am very concerned with our environment and have decided to donate any money I make from any sales of this image to the ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND.....because the Earth needs a good lawyer! We all need to speak up and support efforts to protect our environment. We will not get a second chance!
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Thank you so much to the administrators of the following groups for featuring this image on their group home page:
Wild Birds of the World - A Nature Photography group
Images That Excite You
Wildlife
A Birding Group - Wings
ABC group
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July 28th, 2019
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Comments (16)
Sharon W
Whoa! Let me just say, what a moment! And you captured it to perfection1 I must say i live for moments like this, not always able to capture them, but good on you! Outstanding!!
Bernadette Krupa
Karen, great capture "Hummingbird and Monarch"! Congrats on multiple features - ABC Group, A Birding Group and Wildlife ONE A DAY!! L/F
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your marvelous art has been featured on the Home Page of the ABC Group. This art has been selected from Open Week July 29- August 5! You are invited to add this wonderful art to the features archive.
Don Columbus
Congratulations Karen, your work is Featured in "A Birding Group - Wings" I invite you to place it in the group's "2019 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
William Tasker
So cool! Two beauties in one shot! Thank you for submitting your named wild bird image to Wild Birds Of The World - A Nature Photography Group, where the image is now featured on the home page. L/F