Filed under: Butterfly Garden, Day At The Zoo, Wildlife Interpretive Gallery
Owl Butterfly
Common Blue Morpho
Look carefully at the next to for the Peruvian Sheer tail Hummingbird
Here is is getting nectar from a flower (weed).
Here he is sitting in the Guava Tree.
A Owl Butterfly on my head. Please excuse the bad picture. I took the picture.
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Filed under: African Grasslands, Arctic Foxs, Arctic Ring of Life, Butterfly Garden, Day At The Zoo, Rackham Memorial Fountain, Special Events, White Rhinoceros, Wildlife Interpretive Gallery
I sure hope they do it again next year, and hopefully more than one!! With more advertising this event should become even more popular! It was nice not having kids at the zoo. Nice and quiet. (ZooMance is 21+ also for the bar by Rackham Fountain.)
I took a ton of pictures, but have to be at work early so I will post them later. I got some new pics and video’s of things I never saw there before and was treated to.
Here are the Male and Female Blue Swallow Tanager’s on the trellace in front of the Chrysalis. Notice all the greenery gone? So tragic it was cut down.
A bunch of new White Morpho’s born and released! Looks like a bunch, come quick! I hear their adult life span is 1 week!
The Camera was on a round standing table with a black table cloth, on the right is one of the tables with umbrellas from by the ZooFari Market. The white tent was where the booze was. Of course, you could walk around too!
The Arctic Fox’s where out digging and kind of playing.
The two Rhino’s in a interesting pose!!
More to come and there are more even better than these!! Stay tuned!!
Filed under: Butterfly Garden, Matilda Wilson Free-Flight Aviary, Wildlife Interpretive Gallery
I found a previous visit I did not post. I will post last weekends a little later in the week.
I only had my cell phone with me, so please excuse the small low quality pictures.
This one took a liking to me. He / she was fluttering around me alot.
My outdated bird guide for the aviary I got on clearance last year does not list the bird above. She / he was not too timid and let me get close. The ducks below are White-faced Whistling-Duck.
I will see if I can buy a new updated one along with the butterfly garden so I can post what they are.
The Outback was closed today due to the trail being icey / slushy. So I decided to go to the zoo.
Swallow Tanger
I was finally able to get the new Humming Birds. My older Olympus seems to do a better job than the newer HP in the Butterfly Garden.
More photos to come. The new upload tool for Flickr only uploaded the first seventeen photos I took. I will upload them soon and post the best ones here.
Filed under: Butterfly Garden, Day At The Zoo, Matilda Wilson Free-Flight Aviary, Wildlife Interpretive Gallery
I was lucky enough to get my camera really close to a still butterfly:
The butterfly was facing backwards so I had to reach around around with my arm. I wish I could have gotten the face better, but I think it is a very nice pic. And thanks to the comment on this photo on Flickr, you know who you are!
I never checked out the room to the left in the Wildlife Interpretive Gallery, after seeing people below the fish tank and was pleasantly greeted by this going in that room.
I also found this very beautiful picture on the wall. You loose some in the photograph
I even found wild coffee growing in the butterfly garden for us coffee lovers!
More butterfly pictures
And one from the aviary: (Scarlet Ibis)
I have more to post, but I do not want to make this too long. I will post again within the next several days, one includes a non-native bird to the zoo.
Filed under: African Grasslands, Australian Outback, Butterfly Garden, Day At The Zoo, Giraffe House, Lions, Matilda Wilson Free-Flight Aviary, Tigers, Wild Dogs, Wildlife Interpretive Gallery
I went to the zoo yesterday. I decided to leave home my HP PhotoSmart R727 6.x MP 3x Digital Camera for my Olympus 4MP Digital Camera with a 10x zoom to be able to see if I could capture the animals better with the zoom and hope the engine in the camera was better. It seems to be in most areas, but certain lighting conditions caused blurriness with the optical zoom over around 5x.
The hummingbirds are back at the zoo and got some really good shots with them there.
The Prairie Dogs were out in full force today too!
The Wolverine’s were decked out for the MSU and U of M game! Even caught one standing up when a zoo keeper went by in a bike.
I had a long pleasant talk with the two Australian Outback along with the Zoo Keeper Director. Got one sleeping here and the one by the barrow is the youngest baby.
Even the Bears want to play!!
Leamers are almost always moving and are not in a good posing position. This one gave me the opportunity. Even someone commented he/she did.
The Tigers were busy getting ready to pose then people watch then I am sure do what all cats do, sleep.
Then off to the Aviary/
These are kind of skiddish, but with their red eyes they kind of have a prehistoric personality. If I had a bad dream with birds attacking it would be these.
Then last but not least the Butterfly Gardens.
I did not go in the order of the way I went through the zoo. Please use the flicker thing on the left to go to my account and look at the rest I took. I hope I can get more people interested in the zoo and to come and visit and for though’s who cannot, can from their comfort of their own home. Please help promote this site! I would like to see this site get some regular visitors. – Eric
