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Spotted this guy while I was watering the flower bed - it's right in the middle of an oversized Pride of Madeira and I just couldn't get more than this rather cluttered view. But ... it was huge as grasshoppers go, and it was colored like nothing I'd ever seen. So, likely fresh out of its previous skin, you can see the wings aren't fully formed yet.
It looks like this one has lived a life.......
Painted lady
Scientific name
Vanessa cardui
A fairly large orange, black and white butterfly, the painted lady is a migrant to the UK from North Africa, the Middle East and southern Europe during the summer; sometimes it arrives here in enormous numbers. A frequent visitor to gardens, it will feed on Buddleia and other flowers. The caterpillars feed on thistles, mallows and Viper's-bugloss, as well as various cultivated plants. This species cannot survive our winter in any form.
Taken with my Nikon D850 edited with ChatGPT.
Widgeon
A common dabbling duck, the wigeon is a winter visitor that gathers in large numbers, particularly on wet grasslands, floodplain meadows, flooded gravel pits and reservoirs with gently sloping edges where they can easily get out onto the grassy banks. Wigeon can be spotted dabbling in close-knit groups or flying in tight formations over wetlands.
“Qui se sait profond, s'efforce à la clarté : qui veut paraître profond aux yeux de la foule, s'efforce à l'obscurité. Car la foule tient pour profond ce dont elle ne peut voir les raisons : elle a si peur de se noyer !”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Walking towards the Great Assembly Hall covering 4,500 square meters and supported by 183 pillars in the center of the monastery, is the best known, most powerful tschomen of all the monasteries in Tibet.
Centaurea sp. and Melitaea athalia, forest south of Potsdam, Germany, shot with a Nikon Z fc with a Nikkor Z MC 50 mm 1:2.8.