Day 273: Migration

Every autumn, the monarch butterfly migrates from southern Canada to Mexico. This small, delicate insects travel around 50 miles each day during the migration! I think that's pretty awesome!

Some years, we see thousands in Abilene, and some years there are fewer. This year we haven't seen quite as many as we sometimes do, but it's still pretty neat. It's hard to see, but even in the small picture that I took, you can count ten butterflies. I would have had more in a picture, but I wasn't moving slow enough to keep them from flying away!