For our Northern DU'rs: Who Hates the Days getting Shorter?

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60. Woah, that IS sad...

I never saw that many at one time in the big park I used to live near, but we had a lot of all manner of different ones. It was lovely!
I learned to identity the one's I didn't know after I got a pamphlet from the Bronx Zoo from their seasonal Spring/Summer butterfly house.

My unique experience would be sitting on our family apt's fire escape (first floor) where our building was partly built upon an ?9 story high steep hill, and we faced over the streets and buildings below ! It was a 180° view of the sky! As a lover of cloud shapes this was heavenly!
There was a big cantalevered balcony jutting out where the tree tops would be in front, and around the sides past the fence of it.

I'd be relaxing there, and all of a sudden a Monarch would fly about 3 - 4 ft away above, and straight past me going southward! It would be funny bc there was no garden of flowers near by, so where was it going? If it had been flying northward, that would have made sense bc that big park was only about half a mile or less away.
I called them the "strong fliers". 🩷

So even we in "the Big City" have Nature mysteries, and experiences! 🙂

Oh, and one Spring I watched a pair of crows building a nest in a tree on the hill just south of where our balcony ended. They'd fly by with branches! The trees were not fully leafed out so you could see the nest. 👍🩷