Rainforest Publications recently licensed one of my Monarch photos, which was shot on Eastern Point, for the cover of their newest pocket field guide, Butterflies of Mexico. You can get a preview of the new field guide by clicking here; look towards the bottom of the page.
I requested their field guide on Mexican Flowers, which Larry, the publisher, kindly sent along. I love it–the guide is beautifully illustrated, and well, just so pocketable! I wished I had it on my trip last winter to Agangueo to film the Monarchs and especially appreciate how the guide is organized by plant family as opposed to alphabetically.
If any of our world traveling GMG readers are planning a trip to Costa Rica, Mexico, Florida, Hawaii, Panama, Peru, California, Nicaragua, Belize, or the Pacific Northwest I recommend checking out their website, Rainforest Publications. Specific to each region, they offer field guides on marine animals, birds, orchids, wildflowers, butterflies, trees, reptiles, amphibians, and more. They even have a field guide for marine mammals of the North Atlantic. At only $5.95. I think this would be ideal for whale watchers (and for whale watching companies like Seven Seas to carry the guides).
Good Morning Gloucester 
Beautiful!
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Thank you Mike!
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Congratulations, Kim! A great photo. Just yesterday I booked a trip to Costa Rica and will definitely benefit from your Rain Forest Publications field guide tip. Thanks!
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Thank you Linda! So excited for you for your trip to Costa Rica!! Rainforest Pub has tons of guides for Costa Rica. Here’s the link: http://www.rainforestpublications.com/costaRicaFieldGuides/costa-rica-pocket-guides.html
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Hi Kim – when was this photo taken? I can’t believe there were so many Monarchs all in one place around here.
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Hi Mary Jo,
The photo was taken in 2012, which was a super year for Monarchs in our region, as well as many other species of butterflies. Last year, 2013 was terrible, the worst ever recorded. This year the population was better than last, but not nearly as good as 2006 and 2012.
In the next few days, I am going to post the short film that I made for the Berkshire Museum’s “Butterflies” exhibit, titled “A Flight of Monarchs.” The film was primarily shot here on Cape Ann. I think people are going to be astounded at the phenomenal numbers of butterflies that are here during a good migration!! Please stay tuned.
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Very nice – beautiful picture of togetherness…Dave:-) & Kim:-)
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Thanks so much Dave.
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