Went to the annual monarch butterfly tagging/release over the weekend at one of the local metro parks.
Kids spent the morning capturing the butterflies and learning about their migration and life-cycle. The climax was obviously when all the tagged butterflies were released late in the afternoon. The journey will take these beauties 1,749 miles from this location to their wintering grounds near Mexico City.
The odds that someone down there will find one of these tagged butterflies is literally a needle in the haystack. Over the thousands that have been released here during the last decade, only 11 have been retrieved.