Photo of the Week: Red Admiral Butterfly

Sitting on a fallen curled up brown leaf on the green grass sits a black and red butterfly with white spots with its wings open completely.

The fluttering dark and red colors about four feet off the ground caught my attention as I walked away from the Detroit River Hawk Watch at Lake Erie Metropark.

I watched as it landed on a fallen brown leaf on the green grass, walked up slowly and discovered it was a beautiful Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) butterfly.

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