{"id":128430,"date":"2024-05-13T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=128430"},"modified":"2024-05-13T04:46:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T09:46:06","slug":"common-buckeye-butterfly-resting-on-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2024\/05\/13\/common-buckeye-butterfly-resting-on-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Buckeye Butterfly Resting On Grass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I am sharing a beautiful Common Buckeye butterfly that I photographed on the last day of April at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-128425 size-full\" title=\"Common Buckeye butterfly resting on grass at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/common-buckeye-butterfly-sequoyah-nwr-mia-mcpherson-2412.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/common-buckeye-butterfly-sequoyah-nwr-mia-mcpherson-2412.jpg\" alt=\"Common Buckeye butterfly resting on grass at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20900%20643%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/common-buckeye-butterfly-sequoyah-nwr-mia-mcpherson-2412-200x143.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/common-buckeye-butterfly-sequoyah-nwr-mia-mcpherson-2412-250x179.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/common-buckeye-butterfly-sequoyah-nwr-mia-mcpherson-2412-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/common-buckeye-butterfly-sequoyah-nwr-mia-mcpherson-2412-400x286.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/common-buckeye-butterfly-sequoyah-nwr-mia-mcpherson-2412-600x429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/common-buckeye-butterfly-sequoyah-nwr-mia-mcpherson-2412-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/common-buckeye-butterfly-sequoyah-nwr-mia-mcpherson-2412-800x572.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/common-buckeye-butterfly-sequoyah-nwr-mia-mcpherson-2412.jpg 900w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Common Buckeye butterfly resting on grass at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge \u2013 Nikon D810, handheld, f10, 1\/500, ISO 500, Nikkor 70-300mm VR at 300mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My dear friend <a href=\"https:\/\/stevecreek.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Steve Creek<\/span><\/a> spotted this butterfly when he walked down to the water&#8217;s edge of Reeve&#8217;s Slough while I took a nature break. I&#8217;m grateful that Steve pointed the butterfly out to me and wanted to be sure to give him credit for doing that. I wouldn&#8217;t have seen it without his help.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to get quite close to the butterfly and take frame filling images of it using my backup Nikon D810 with my Nikkor 70-300mm lens attached.<\/p>\n<p>The way the Common Buckeye butterfly was perched on a blade of dew covered grass in the lovely soft morning light was very pleasing to my eye. I took quite a few images of this gorgeous butterfly before thanking it and walking back to Steve&#8217;s pickup.<\/p>\n<p>Although I am primarily a bird photographer, I enjoy seeing and photographing practically everything I find when I am out and immersed in nature.<\/p>\n<p>Everything in nature is connected, including me.<\/p>\n<p>Life<em> is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n<p>Mia<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/insects-and-spiders\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my insect and spider galleries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I am sharing a beautiful Common Buckeye butterfly that I photographed on the last day of April at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14103,13973,13974],"tags":[4004,13985,13984,6041,6042,14112,14105,5142,7318,3747,4109,4156,165],"class_list":["post-128430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-common-buckeye-butterflies","category-oklahoma","category-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge","tag-adult","tag-bottomland-hardwood-forests","tag-bottomlands","tag-butterflies","tag-butterfly","tag-common-buckeye","tag-common-buckeye-butterfly","tag-dew","tag-dew-drops","tag-grass","tag-grasses","tag-resting","tag-spring"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/common-buckeye-butterfly-sequoyah-nwr-mia-mcpherson-2412.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-xps","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":114210,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/07\/07\/common-buckeye-butterfly-photos-from-sequoyah-nwr\/","url_meta":{"origin":128430,"position":0},"title":"Common Buckeye Butterfly Photos From Sequoyah NWR","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"July 7, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sharing four Common Buckeye butterfly photos this morning. 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