Hi there, everyone I was out at Heritage Trail Metro Park this morning and had a great walk as well as getting to study a mature Green Heron's activities. It was gulping down some prey just as I got my binoculars on it. It took cover about 10 minutes later behind some pond-side weeds and such. That observation was instructional for me as this was only the 2nd career green heron sighting for me,the first being up at Hoover Preserve. I noticed right away upon arriving, that the butterflies were out in large numbers but the real treat was just minutes away as I was going down a little utilized trail- off trail about maybe a 100 feet away lie a large stand of yellowish weeds (I doubt if they were goldenrod) which was absolutely loaded with monarchs,maybe 1,000 or more in that stand and maybe a few hundred more in the same kind of weeds closer to the pond where the green heron was spotted. Lastly, a very good number of viceroys were spotted in the trees along the main trail from the parking area northward. The black swallowtails were found close to the pond's edge near the heron. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]