For the weekend of the fourth, I traveled with family again to the
National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minnesota, where this fellow was in residence. I should go in the winter sometime, because the open water at this segment of the Mississippi attracts eagles from miles around; one archive photo shows ~25 of them perched on one tree on the riverbank.
I spotted this other handsome fellow along the Wisconsin side of the river, while driving down the Great River Road. I would suspect that's a very expensive rack on his head.
On the butterfly front, we are experiencing a second wave of Monarchs. Our initial group flew away many weeks ago, and for a long time we saw no more new eggs in the garden, but recently some adults have arrived, oviposited, and grown to maturity; this week some of them were ready for release.
Out in the fields there appears to be a second wave of
American Lady caterpillars as well. I'm not sure how many brood cycles they go through at this latitude. This caterpillar looks to be almost fully developed; it's interesting that she didn't pull any leaves together for her "nest," but rather just wove a mesh roof over her head. Perhaps the leaves were so small that she couldn't approximate their edges.
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