Favoritos de manysprings

A pair of hawks have found good hunting in my yard. Here they are sharing a perch. The tail of a red squirrel was on the ground beneath the larger of the two - perhaps the female (right side of photo)

From three of five eggs collected on common milkweed plants at home in southwestern Ontario that had been cut (or otherwise eventually dominate!). Therefore, wild, captive and re-wilded?

The red arrow in the 5th photo points at one of the monarch butterflies in the 1st photo, which is also the one in my profile photo (not shot by me so it is not one of the obs photos); where it 1st flew to--to my surprise!--and briefly crawled around before flying up into the tree and....