Butterflies

Okay, so this isn't entirely butterflies. While doing some call-playback surveys for raptors in the Peace this July, I had a chance to play with my newly acquired 55-200mm lens (Thanks, M!). Call-playback surveys, for those who have never done them, are just that: playing the call of a bird and waiting to see if a real bird will call back or fly over. We had hardly any success with this, and with fifteen minutes (at least) per station, we had tons of time to do other things.. like take pictures of anything and everything around us.

 

 

I really wish I knew more about butterflies and dragonflies, but I don't, so they shall all be unnamed. I'm not even sure if the last one is a butterfly or a moth...

This, I can name. This is Northern grass of Parnassus (Parnassia palustris). It's pretty and elegant.

Finally, because I can't resist sunsets... here's one from a drive a coworker and I took one night. It was beautiful, and I wish that the mosquitoes hadn't been as bad and that I knew how to use my camera a bit better (or at least faster). I think I'd be fine now, but at that point. I wasn't.