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kipmorgan.bsky.social
@kipmorgan.bsky.social
I am a devout observer and photographer. I am fascinated by nature especially the habits of butterfly and moths. I am also a political activist focused on human rights. My name is Kevin Morgan
Stormy this evening in Missouri...
July 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM
A Kaleidoscope of Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele) surround newly blossomed milk weed flowers.
These are all males. They get together and hang out on beautiful days like this in Excelsior Springs Missouri
#Nature #Butterflies #Sanity
June 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
When Butterflies emerge, they don't grow. Being a butterfly is the last stage in their growth and is their adulthood. It doesn't mean they always act like adults. :)
#Butterfly #Nature #Sanity
May 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A Silver Spotted Skipper - Epargyreus clarus I saw today on Williams Creek in Excelsior Springs (NW) Missouri. These long winged butterflies are nearly always seen in this posture, wings up. During mating they will open them at what is a risk.
#Butterfly #Nature #Sanity
May 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The Viceroy Butterfly - Limenitis archippus
Fishing River
I saw her this afternoon in the willow row... I showed up, sat still and waited. Soon, she and a companion did a fly by. wait. Finally, she came to this willow you see her perched there. I left without spooking.
#Butterfly #Nature #Sanity
May 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Peonies are blossoming now....
#Nature #Sanity
May 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
American Snout butterfly - Libytheana carinenta
This brush footed butterfly is so ancient it's in the fossil record. They frequent stream edges and have both a leaf appearance and a colorful streak depending on their audience. Excelsior Springs Missouri #Butterfly #Nature #Sanity
May 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Trilobite - Bolaspidela housensis
I found this fossil in Utah last week. It is about 400 million years old from the Cambrian period prior to the rise of the dinosaurs. These were one of the most successful species to ever live. #trilobite #cambrian #fossil
May 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Happy Mothers Day...
May 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This Juvenal's Duskywing Butterfly (Gesta Juvenales) found me today along banks of Fishing River, NW Missouri. Once they become aware of your presence, they will share the space at a distance. Readjusting to you as you move. If they fly into a shadow, they disappear.
#Butterfly #Nature #Sanity
April 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Springtime on the little lake...
Crystal Lakes Missouri
#Landscape #Nature #Sanity
April 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Sunset in Excelsior Springs Missouri...
#Sunset #Nature #Sanity
March 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Downtown Excelsior Springs Missouri on this beautiful spring day of March 29th, 2025
#SanityCity
March 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Just a little green like the color when the spring is born...
Excelsior Springs Missouri
#Landscape #Nature #Sanity
March 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
An Orange Sulfur -Colias eurytheme samples a new flower on the water at Crystal Lakes Missouri.
#Nature #Butterfly #Sanity
March 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Only 6 days to spring! This is one of the early butterfly in spring. Mourning Cloak- Nymphalis antiopa These large beautiful butterflies may winter over beneath bark and emerge early. These warm days would lend themselves to that happening now. I shot this last spring. Excelsior Springs Mo.
#Nature
March 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Ring Billed Gulls fishing off the dam at Crystal Lakes Missouri...
#Birds #Nature #Sanity
March 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Just about a mile south of here, sanity starts popping up everywhere. A bird, a tree, an old barn, something more important outside than the anxiety within.
Clay County Missouri
#Nature #Lanscape #Sanity
February 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I saw this guy purusing an open field today. The nearby lake is still slightly frozen.
Excelsior Springs Missouri
#Birds #Nature #Sanity
February 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Winter window mostly down...
Excelsior Springs Missouri
#Landscape #Sunset #Sanity
February 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
February's Winter Sunlight
Clay County Missouri
#Landscape #Nature #Sanity
February 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Bronze Copper Butterfly - Lycaena hyllus
in Excelsior Springs Missouri
#Nature #Sanity
February 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
February day on Fishing River in Ray County Missouri...
#Nature #Landscape #Sanity
February 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The Color of February from my ride around Crystal Lakes (NW) Missouri yesterday.
#Nature #Landscape #Sanity
February 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Sometimes the February sun changes it all and me...
#Nature #Sanity #Missouri #Landscape
February 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM