Last weekend, we spent a day at Callaway Gardens helping with the monarch butterfly tagging process. Because the monarchs are migrating through the Callaway area toward Texas and Mexico, they invite park visitors to come and help tag butterflies in the hope of better understanding migratory patterns. You can even track your own butterfly online, kind of like a Webkinz, just to see where it finally lands. Very cool, if you are actually able to tag some! We netted lots of different types of butterflies, but monarchs are notoriously difficult to catch. They fly high on regular days, but on cool and windy days (such as ours was) they are almost impossible to locate. We did actually see one, but the ensuing rush of kids with nets was enough to run me out of the park, let alone a butterfly! Oh well, there's always this weekend!
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