I celebrated my birthday last Sunday with a visit to the
Living Desert Wildlife and Botanical Park in Palm Desert - it's about a 2 hour drive from where we live. Even though I was born and raised in So. California, I never knew this place existed! I had a wonderful time exploring the "Butterflies Alive" exhibit. These two Painted Lady butterflies were nice enough to pose for me. (You can click on the photos to view a larger image.)
I've never had any luck taking pictures of hummingbirds (they were always blurry) so you can imagine how happy I was with this photo. This little
Anna's Hummingbird perched on the feeder just long enough for me to take her picture.
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here to visit Misty's Camera Critters webpage!
I celebrated my birthday last Sunday with a visit to the Living Desert Wildlife and Botanical Park in Palm Desert - it's about a 2 hour drive from where we live. Even though I was born and raised in So. California, I never knew this place existed! I had a wonderful time exploring the "Butterflies Alive" exhibit. These two Painted Lady butterflies were nice enough to pose for me. (You can click on the photos to view a larger image.)
I've never had any luck taking pictures of hummingbirds (they were always blurry) so you can imagine how happy I was with this photo. This little Anna's Hummingbird perched on the feeder just long enough for me to take her picture.
Click here to visit Misty's Camera Critters webpage!
21 comments:
Happy belated Birthday. It is always fun to go and explore new places. Your butterfly pictures are beautiful. And good for you that the hummer posed for you. That is exciting. This past summer after I cut the grass, I went around watering my plants. I had two hanging baskets out front along with two hummer feeders. While watering the one basket a female ruby-throated hummer landed on the feeder, not six inches from me. My heart was beating a mile a minute. See look at me. I look at her savoring this experience. The spell was broken when a car came down the street and she flew away. Those are moments that last forever.
Thank you for sharing your photos. Lisa
Happy Belated Birthday. Great photos.
i bet you just LOOOVE your new camera!! great photos!
GREAT shots! I especially like the hummingbird photo. Happy belated birthday - I'd love to go somewhere like this!
these are beautiful! what a wonderful little hummingbird!
Happy belated birthday. Gorgeous photos.
Happy late Birthday! Love the butterflies and that hummer is a keeper! :)
lovely shots. love the bird too. Happy Birthday.
For the Love of Pets
Happy belated birthday. Love the light in the second shot ....
great photos, and yes Happy Belated Birthday.
I’ve visited the Living Desert& Wildlife Botanical Park in Palm Desert and it IS a fascinating place isn’t it. Happy belated birthday to you! I have lots of hummingbirds in my yard but haven’t been too successful trying to photograph them. Thanks for sharing.
Hugs and blessings,
Great photos, is that a painted lady butterfly?
Beautiful. There were very few butterflies around here this year, so I'm glad to see that they are still around elsewhere :)
Happy Birthday! Glad you had a lovely day. Very nice photos!
Wonderful ! I would have loved to visit such a place too !
Happy belated birthday. Sounds like you had a great time celebrating.
I found your blog through Bobbi's but I'll be back again. First of all, belated Happy Birthday! I love your photos! Friends of mine got an incredible shot of a hummer dining off their deck one evening and sent it to me. I have it in the sidebar of my blog. They are exquisite creatures. And what would we do without our dogs? Also love the video on Palin!!! Thanks!
What a great way to spend your birthday! I would love to visit a place like that around here...hmmm, will have to check into it!
These are wonderful and what way to spend your birthday
Happy Belated Birthday! I hate to tell you how many blurry hummer photos I've deleted. I have a feeder right outside my office window here, and that's about the only place I can get a good photo--while one's sitting and guzzling away!
nice capture of the butterfly and humming bird...happy birthday...
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