Cabbage Butterfly

This is a tight crop on a cabbage butterfly in order to check focus of new equipment. It's also a change-up from monarch butterfly blips for the past three days. 

Attempted to take cabbage butterflies in flight photos, and have a couple which don't meet my quality standards!  Cabbage butterflies and red admiral butterflies are not as large as monarchs, seem to take flight more easily, and don't give the same visual clues that flight is imminent as monarchs.  The smaller butterflies just take off and leave you with a picture of a flower and no butterfly or a blurred butterfly.

Was trying out a new lens for sharpness and handling.  The lens is bulky and long, but is a keeper.