{"id":7527,"date":"2019-03-21T09:21:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T16:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7527"},"modified":"2019-03-29T11:29:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T18:29:55","slug":"march-21-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7527","title":{"rendered":"March 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 March 21<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes: Here are three examples of Kirsten Mills\u2019s\u00a0 beautiful <strong>California Tortoiseshell <\/strong>\u00a0find today, March 20th, at Mount Tolmie at \u00a05.30pm. Seen close\u00a0to the reservoir. \u00a0One was hovering and settling on Oregon Grape.\u00a0\u00a0I only saw two, and they were different as seen in the photos I have submitted. I also saw a <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> in Outerbridge Park around noon,\u00a0 March 17th, but it flew off before I could get a photo of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"CATOc4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CATOc4.jpg\" width=\"593.6\" height=\"400.18533333333335\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">California Tortoiseshell\u00a0 <em>Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"CALTORb3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CALTORb3.jpg\" width=\"593.6\" height=\"446.684\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">California Tortoiseshell\u00a0 <em>Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"CATOb6.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CATOb6.jpg\" width=\"593.6\" height=\"393.7546666666667\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">California Tortoiseshell\u00a0 <em>Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Mark Wynja writes:\u00a0 On March 20th at km 25 of Nanaimo River Road I observed a <strong>California<\/strong> <strong>Tortoiseshell<\/strong>. \u00a0It perched on my vehicle, tripod, my hat and back repeatedly. At one point I also had to remove it from the open trunk of my car.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 620px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image1.jpg\" width=\"593.6\" height=\"396.228\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">California Tortoiseshell\u00a0 <em>Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Mark Wynja<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 623px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image3.jpg\" width=\"593.6\" height=\"396.228\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">California Tortoiseshell\u00a0 <em>Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Mark Wynja<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 415px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pastedImage-4.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">California Tortoiseshell\u00a0 <em>Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mark Wynja<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 March 21 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy writes: Here are three examples of Kirsten Mills\u2019s\u00a0 beautiful California Tortoiseshell \u00a0find today, March 20th, at Mount Tolmie at \u00a05.30pm. Seen close\u00a0to the reservoir. \u00a0One was hovering and settling on Oregon Grape.\u00a0\u00a0I only saw two, and they were different as seen in the photos I have submitted. 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