This bright Monarch butterfly was fluttering along the hedgerow between Club de Golf and El Sauz. In the nearby state of Michoacan, they winter in such huge numbers that the sky is said to turn orange and the trees droop under the sheer weight of them!
I snapped this Pipevine Swallowtail enjoying a spot of evening Sun.
The fields around El Sauz also hold lots of open country birds. A pair of White-tailed Kites hovered above, whilst a Cassin's Kingbird perches atop seemingly each of the cactii that dot the landscape.
Loggerhead Shrikes, Vermilion Flycatchers and Golden Fronted Woodpeckers....guarantee.
They're quite hard to miss, as are the Barn Swallows, most of which seem to have left the nests now.
A couple of small Tit-like birds dashed into a nearby tree. They were quite shy, but I picked out a few features and took a quick record shot. Checking the books, they were a party of Black-eared Bushtits, another new species for my Mexico list!
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