Yumm. Buttery bokeh. But I'm sure I've never seen an Eastern Tailed
Blue in Massachusetts (or anywhere else).
Chuck Norcutt
On 9/28/2010 4:06 PM, usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> This is a quick report on my first outing with Massachusetts chapter
> of NABA (North American Butterfly Assoc) at Appleton Farms. The
> weather turned out OK and we saw 21 species of butterflies – not bad
> for 2.5 hours. The
> species and numbers follow:
>
>
>
> Black Swallowtail - 11
> Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1
> Cabbage White - 22
> Clouded Sulphur - 8
> Orange Sulphur - 3
> Am. Copper - 1
> Eastern Tailed-blue - 1
> Great Spangled Fritillary - 1
> Silver-bordered Fritillary - 2
> Pearl Crescent - 100 estimate only, species was abundant!
> Eastern Comma - 1
> Lady Spp. - 1
> Red Admiral - 2
> Viceroy - 2
> Common Ringlet - 12
> Common Wood-nymph - 12
> Monarch - 6 plus eggs
> Least Skipper - 12
> Peck's Skipper - 20
> Northern Broken-dash - 1
> Dun Skipper - 2
>
> http://tinyurl.com/262gbsx (first eastern tailed blue I ever
> photographed)
>
>
>
> OM5DMk11 Viv s1 90-180 macro in OM mount at bout F5.6 (thanks Jeff!!!)
> Raw processed in DXO followed by a bit of LCE in PS (no converter in
> my ver of ACR)
> Marnie said I should try and clone out the brown in the grass.
>
> It's all Dean's fault for apprising me of the existence of this
> organization. ;-) The light was quite variable / overcast.
> Next outing in search of the elusive Bronze Copper a proper body--
> OM4Ti with 100 Ektar was used---still not processed. Report to follow.
>
> Mike
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