Hi there everyone, I have also had some interesting butterfly sightings interspersed around our main focus of interest: birds Lately I have witnessed the hummingbirds in migration,especially from about Dublin,Ohio to Marysville along Rt. 33. This has been accompanied by countless monarch butterflies in their migration as well. One of the high points as far as butterfly watching is concerned, has been a good number of sightings of Giant Swallowtails here in the central Ohio counties,especially in the rural areas . On one fairly disappointing birding expedition at Homestead Park in Hilliard recently,the number of butterfly species was also disappointing until the last few minutes of my trek when I saw a mature Giant Swallowtail flying fairly quickly over a waist-high weedy, prairie-like area to make my day worthwhile.. Gary Moon ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]