Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: My first Mourning Cloak!, 1 by kennedyh

kennedyh wrote:
A lovely butterfly, I hope yours recovered. When we spent a year in Canada, we were lucky enough to have just one visit to our garden by a Mourning Cloak. It was a particular thrill, because it is also found in England where I grew up, but is quite rare there and I never saw one. In England it is called the Camberwell Beauty but is still Nymphalis antiopa.
Here is a picture I took in my garden in Kelowna in Brotosh Columbia, Canada back in 1998: