<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">Happy Fourth of July! Today, just after the Four on the Fourth Road Race in Chester, I saw my FOY Monarch!</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Yesterday, at Haddam Meadows State Park, I went on a hunt for Monarch eggs. Found one--it hatched today!</div><div aria-label="Compose body">Also at HMSP:</div><div aria-label="Compose body">2 Silver Spotted Skippers</div><div aria-label="Compose body">3 Red Admirals</div><div aria-label="Compose body">3 Eastern Tailed Blues</div><div aria-label="Compose body">2 sulphur sp--think one was Clouded, one Orange, not positive</div><div aria-label="Compose body">1 American Lady</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">But I think the most unusual thing I saw, as I was about to drive away, was a man releasing a chipmunk from a Havahart trap! It reminded me of my childhood, when my father would trap groundhogs near the vegetable garden and release them at the train station!</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Diane</div><div aria-label="Compose body">out and about</div></div></body></html>