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I only saw a couple of these on my trip to the Southeast, but thankfully this one sat still for a brief moment.
Phinizy Swamp Nature Park (Augusta, GA)
You may have heard about California's "superbloom" - vast fields and bursts of wildflowers everywhere. Turns out, it's good for the Painted Lady butterfly migration as well. Hundreds, thousands, millions of them are heading from near the Mexican border to our Pacific Northwest. Finally they found my yard, which is just bursting with color. This one lighted on a bloom of sea lavender. Mostly, I see Monarchs come through here, but the Painted Ladies are only occasional and just darned special. I hung in my yard for about an hour today and watched and photographed them as they flitted silently from flower to flower. What a joy indeed.
A painted lady butterfly, the one butterfly species that has been abundant here this fall (not counting all the little skippers).
The painted lady (Vanessa cardui) is the most widespread of all butterflies in the world. It is found throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, and Central America. In most years, the painted lady moves north out of the deserts of northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. to temporarily colonize the United States and Canada south of the Arctic. Periodically, enormous migrations from these deserts inundate areas of the country, so it can be locally very abundant at times.
Source and more info: hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/painted-lady-butterfly-v...
And doing a fine job of keeping the sidewalk clear of it!
Olympus XA2 on Fuji 200
Los Angeles, Southern California
Jan 2012
It's been a while since I posted a landscape photo, so after finding this shot during my archive dive, I decided it was time for one.
This is a section of the Painted Hills unit of Oregon's John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.
The Painted Hills in Oregon are colorful due to oxidized mineral deposits in volcanic ash layers. The colors are created from a combination of elements like iron, aluminum, and magnesium.
Red layers: Iron-rich laterite soil that formed in tropical climates. The iron in the laterite reacts with oxygen to create rust-colored layers.
Yellow layers: Iron and magnesium oxides that formed in drier, cooler climates.
Black layers: Lignite, the fossilized remains of plants that grew along floodplains.
Grey layers: Mudstone, siltstone, and shale.
The black spots are manganese nodules
The colors of this area will change with the position of the sun, last rainfall, temperature etc. These photos were taken after rainfall the night before.
Painted Hills, is one of the three units of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, located in Wheeler County, Oregon. It totals 3,132 acres (12.67 km2) and is located 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Mitchell, Oregon. The Painted Hills are listed as one of the Seven Wonders of Oregon. Painted Hills is named after the colorful layers of its hills corresponding to various geological eras, formed when the area was an ancient river floodplain.
The black soil is lignite that was vegetative matter that grew along the floodplain. The grey coloring is mudstone, siltstone, and shale. The red coloring is laterite soil that formed by floodplain deposits when the area was warm and humid
An abundance of fossil remains of early horses, camels, and rhinoceroses in the Painted Hills unit makes the area particularly important to vertebrate paleontologists.
Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta) photographed while kayaking in the LaPlatte River in Shelburne, VT.
Painted lady (Vanessa cardui) butterfly sipping nectar from some flower.
Rusałka osetnik (Vanessa cardui) spijająca nektar z jakiegoś kwiatu.
Haven't seen many butterflies this year so it was nice to see this lovely painted lady on a track to Horsey Gap, Norfolk.
The male painted bunting is often described as the most beautiful bird in North America. Its colours, dark blue head, green back, red rump, and underparts, make it extremely easy to identify, but it can still be difficult to spot since it often skulks in foliage even when it is singing. The plumage of female and juvenile painted buntings is green and yellow-green, serving as camouflage. Once seen, the adult female is still distinctive, since it is a brighter, truer green than other similar songbirds.
I see a red door
And I want it painted black
No colors anymore
I want them to turn black.
Jagger Mick / Richard Keith
Last summer (2019) was one of those special summers for Painted ladies, they seemed to be everywhere. Its one of my favourite butterflies maybe its possible to have consecutive good years!
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© Dan McCabe
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Painted Hills are a landscape of alternating bands of red and tan rocks,
The Painted Hills of Oregon are a part of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, which, as the name implies, are home to a variety of fossils.
But finding fossils takes work. That is not the case with the Painted Hills, although you do have to travel for several miles on back-roads. That said, the drive is pretty easy.
This panorama is a composite of nine 35 Mpix photos.
My 54 year old paint kettle. Many colours have dribbled over the edge, these days, mostly white.
Macro Mondays theme, 'painted'.
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