Butterflies and Red Eye Tree Frog
 

I visited magic Wings, which is a butterfly conservatory in South Deerfield, Mass. I have a few pictures from there to post.

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They had a few other animals there too. One of them was this red eye tree frog.
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I had a question about your visit, hoping you could answer it, but then i misplaced that thought.

I came up with a new one, though: Did the sanctuary / observatory tell you around how many species of butterflies currently inhabit their facility?

They didn't say how many different species were there. I did see a butterfly identification card with maybe 30 different butterfly pictures. I'm not sure if they were all there or not.

We took my Lady's younglings to the Butterfly Conservatory in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The girl R, 6 at the time, was all excited and wore brightly patterned clothing to attract the butterflies. Turns out that R was totally freaked, almost hysterical with fear and upset because beautiful butterflies have these creepy, large insect bodies to power those colourful wings. Having large flexible insects landing all over her and walking on her skin was totally not cool.

Too bad because it is a real neat thing to be in a place like that, seeing all the butterflies and enjoying the habitat.

When we were leaving I saw this exquisitely beautiful young East Indian girl wearing gorgeous, brilliant silks, jewels in her hair and on her arms and legs, glitter make-up on eyes and lips . . . she was absolutely stunning . . . heading in to the butterfly area with her family. I so wanted to follow her and take photos of all the butterflies attracted to this young lady, but it was time to get R out of there.

Really like the frog pic. What lens?

Thanks. The lens is a Canon 24-70 F2.8L on a Canon 40D. EXIF says this was taken at ISO 400 f11 from about 1 foot away at 54mm focal length. The frog was in a cage with a glass front window and I was using the popup flash. I was pleasantly surprised this turned out as it did.

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If that conservatory is a few miles northeast of the falls on the Canadian side, I was there a few years ago. Nice place.

Somewhere in all my pictures, I have a picture of the back of a woman's head where she had a braided ponytail and a butterfly had perched itself on her ponytail almost as if it was a barrette.

nice