Feb. 18, 2016---more of the Butterfly World in Coral Springs:
Since I bought a year's membership here, I decided to stop by on my way home from Evergreen Cemetery. Wanted to play with my new lens there, but there were quite a few people here so most of the pictures were taken with my 18-200 lens. At least I knew there would be birds and butterflies here!
And even lots of pretty flowers. Nice seeing flowers in Feb.!
I recognize this guy as a Blue Morph.
Don't know what this guy is, but I see he has a broken wing. Poor little guy.
I heard someone referring to this as a moth. Certainly is a colorful moth!
Lots of these guys
a couple Blue Morphs and a Malachite butterfly. Never saw a Malachite until this week, now I've seen 2 in the wild and one here.
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Love the passion flowers!
don't remember what these flowers are, but they are strange.
Another passion flower
and another
I don't know what this is---looks like a tiny watermelon!
purple passion flower
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Into the aviary. Looks like the ever so common yellow rump warbler
a quail, I presume
even had passion flowers in the aviary.
If you're still too long, the birds will try to take your hair for building a nest.
These guys were talking to each other from different areas---one was in with the butterflies and the other was in the aviary.
another of my favorite flowers---hibiscus
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It still amazes me that so many people go there being as expensive as it is. Maybe they all buy yearly passes! I guess I'm just use to all the free activities in St. Louis. Although if you don't have a reciprocal membership with MOBOT, our butterfly house in St. Louis isn't free---it's a whopping $3!
