Monarch butterfly

A visitor to my garden this afternoon.  Actually, two of them arrived and seemed to engage in some sort of aerial battle (given the time of year I'm assuming it wasn't a courting ritual) that ended up with them both plummeting from the sky and landing inter-tangled in a heap on the lawn.  Minnie of course, saw it all unfold and saw their arrival as an invitation to join in.  It took two "shoo"s to distract her and each "shoo" allowed one of them some time and space to escape.  Whew.  Very pleased they did :)

First blip after a week or two of re-finding my feet back in NZ.  It's been much harder than I thought it would be :(  Not there yet but heading in the right direction.