During my visit to Sweetfields Farm in May I spent a lot of time in their zinnia field after walking through the sunflowers. They have rows and rows of different colored zinnias and the butterflies were having a convention in the flowers.

I only saw swallowtail butterflies but there were a lot of them, posing nicely on the zinnias.

They had every color of zinnia there. I picked one of each color to take home.

The butterflies were so busy feeding that I was able to take the above with my phone.

There were lots of grasshoppers in the field.

The bonus was seeing the above birds. I saw them on a wire at the far end of the sunflower field. When I got closer they moved into the nearby tree. They looked like finches but I have never seen them before. Both Merlin and Picturebird apps identifies them as Indian Silverbills. There was no record of this bird on Ebird being in Florida so I posed the question to a Florida bird identifier Facebook group and they all came up with the silverbill. A few thought it might be a juvenile tricolored munia which has been know to breed in central Florida. If it is the silverbill then it must be an escaped pair of pets that had been breeding now out in the wild.