Fender’s Blue Butterfly Fights Extinction at Basket Slough Wildlife Refuge Oregon
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ธ.ค. 2024
- This video follows Fenders Blue Butterfly which is a threatened species in the Willamette Valley. It was once thought to be extinct. Its habitat in the Willamette Valley was reduced from agriculture. I visited Basket Slough Wildlife Refuge where they are known to be. Kinkaid's Lupine is the plant to look for as the butterfly will be near it at all times. Photographing a butterfly is very difficult, video even worse, but I got enough to show them on here. It is a fun adventure to seek out something like this.
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Nice video, thanks for sharing! 😸
Thank you very much!
Amazing. Thank you
Thank you! Tell your friends!
Excellent documentary.The wee ones are adorable.Thanks Matt✨
Thanks Brooke. I kept diving deeper into butterfly info and had to just stop so I could put this out.
What a wonderful video!!! The butterfly 🦋 and flowers are beautiful!! Nicely done Matt keep them coming.
Thank you! This was a fun and difficult wildlife quest. Hopefully I can think of some more interesting ones.
Thank you so much 😮😅🎉🎉
Thank you!
Beautiful footage. Well done!
Thank you. It was a fun one to do.
Wow, those are stunning!
Agreed!
@@MattCookOregon I planted a few lupine in my garden this year, maybe I will attract a few of these. :).
Nicely done Matt!
Thanks Lowellian.
Yes! my favorites..........fender's blue and lupine.........first signs of summer!
Thanks, Matt. I love this so much. Your daughters are precious.
Thanks so much! I had a good feeling about this one.
Matt you were the perfect man for the job, it could not have been done better. Even the BBC cannot do filming or narration better than that,
Thank you so much for bringing this to us all. ♏💪💯🙏
Thanks Mike. I did put some above normal work into the script. I have found that is the most important part lately.
@@MattCookOregon SO COMMENDABLE MATT.
The butterflies and your daughters are beautiful! Thanks for sharing. 😊❤
Thank you very much. I didn't give them much screen time cause they always steal the show!
Yes, inspirational! Thank you!
Thank you. That was not the theme of the video when I started but it turned out that way.
What a wonderful video thank you for sharing
I appreciate the home depot endorsement!
LOL
Beautiful and inspirational. I love your documentary. 👍🏻❤️
Thanks Arielle.
Wooohoo thank you!
I visited Basket Slough in Sept. 2015 when, unfortunately, there were drought conditions. This lovely video inspires me to visit again. In Spring, this time! Thanks!
Thank you. I find myself wanting to visit these kinds of places at each season. They change so much in look and the wildlife present.
as always dude... awesome video!!
Thank you! The sony strikes again.
Which Easter egg at @1:36 should get a video?
A stunning video. One of your best. Thank you.
Thanks Rob! For some reason I was extra careful with the script. More of that to come.
Photography of butterflies is very difficult, yes. You did good. Thanks!
Thank you. I hadn't really tried butterfly photography before and didn't anticipate it being so difficult. I barely was able to make this video.
How beautiful! You are one of the few to photograph it I bet!
I would like to try again. It was so difficult!
Yes yes so good! gonna leave a sub!
Woohoo. Hope you enjoy. I cover random things in the outdoors.
@@MattCookOregon Sounds good my friend!
I thought I saw a small frog in the lower left hand corner of a frame in the above video. I am interested in native toads. Did you happen to see any toads or toad tadpoles? I am so pleased that this land has been set aside for our native wildlife and plants so they have a place to live in peace. Your 4K looked great on my 2023 top of the line LG 4K OLED TV! I need to buy a 4K digital camera! I shoot almost exclusively motion picture film - Some Super8 but, mostly 16mm and little bit of 35 mm in an old 1935 35mm camera that can only hold 100 ft of 35 mm film.
Thank you. I am glad you enjoyed on the big screen! There was a frog hiding in the shot! I noticed them and tried for a few minutes to get one close up but they were very good at running/hiding. I already had the difficult butterfly to capture so didn't want to take on another sneaky wildlife.
Great video! I did not know about this butterfly. That is unique that they only live in the Willamette Valley. The wildflowers also looked like they were in prime. Those were some amazing shots of the butterflies!
Thank you very much. The little ones do fly under the radar. I got a great video from Hart Mountain coming in about a week, pretty excited for it, stay tuned!
Supa cool
Thank you Torrin.
I wonder if Fender's Blues will interbreed with other small blue butterflies like the Silvery Blue.If they do that could be a reason they are so rare.
That is a very good thought. I hadn't found anything about the two cross breeding so assumed it wasn't happening.
Awesome video!
Thanks!
This report has already become an important record of a species that populated a certain region of the planet.
When Your Little Butterflies Count More Than A Decade,
In addition to the Tiny Blue Butterfly, Other Species Certainly Have Perished.
Terrible Human Nature Has Miserably Failed !
We Are Past the Point of No Return A Long Time Ago.
I hope you are wrong on that, but fear you are likely correct,
Butterfly lives matter!
Well put. We are past point of no return on many things. But many things can still be saved so some of us try out best.
engagement
I wish more would engage on this one. I thought it was cool!
dangit i already commented on this video
Thank you for the support @TorrinR-xv2gc. You have increased my comments ten fold!