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Green Cay Wetlands
Iso 3200 --the best at this moment .
Painted lady (Vanessa cardui) butterfly sipping nectar from red clover (Trifolium pratense) flower.
Rusałka osetnik (Vanessa cardui) pijąca nektar z kwiatu koniczyny łąkowej (Trifolium pratense).
Crazy Tuesday theme: footprints
These are the footprints of my grands. These butterfly footprints arrived years ago when they were very little.
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not too shabby considering I knocked my head into a beam and split it open about 5 minutes before we painted.
An early morning walk along the breakwall at Nambucca Heads, with natural light falling across the painted rocks.
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Painted lady
Insect
Description
Vanessa cardui is a well-known colourful butterfly, known as the painted lady, or formerly in North America as the cosmopolitan. Wikipedia
Macro of flaking paint on a brick along Grand Avenue in Pasadena, California
Day 193 of my 366 Project, and my entry for the Macro Textures weekly theme on Macro Mondays. HMM to all!
Australian Painted Lady (Vanessa kershawi)
This one finally stopped for a brief rest after leading me on a chase through the Sneydes Rd. Paddock.
Painted Lady - Vanessa cardui
The Painted Lady is a long-distance migrant, which causes the most spectacular butterfly migrations observed in Britain and Ireland.
Each year, it spreads northwards from the desert fringes of North Africa, the Middle East, and central Asia, recolonising mainland Europe and reaching Britain and Ireland. In some years it is an abundant butterfly, frequenting gardens and other flowery places in late summer.
Painted lady butterflies have a pale buffy-orange background colour to the upper wings. The forewings have black tips marked with white spots; the hindwings have rows of black spots. The undersides are pale with blue eyespots.
Painted ladies do not hibernate in Britain; instead they migrate to and from northern Africa. They can arrive in early spring, but late May and June are more usual. They are fairly common across Britain, numerous in some years.
Females lay their small, green eggs on a range of species, such as nettles and mallows, but thistles are the general favourite. When the caterpillars hatch they begin to eat the underside of the leaf. As they grow, each constructs a tent of folded leaves fastened with silk.
Caterpillars pupate and remain suspended in a large tent of leaves until the adults emerge in August and September. The whole British population dies or emigrates to Africa in the autumn.
Caterpillars are black, speckled with tiny white spots and have a yellow stripe down each side. They are covered in spines.
Having observed lots of Painted Buntings over the years I am impressed with the amount of variation in color that they have.
At first, I thought I was imagining it or that the differences in colors that I was seeing was just the result of my limited photography skills. It frustrated me so much that I even went out carrying a gray card so I could manually set the white balance to the exact conditions that my photos were taken. To my surprised and frustration, I was still seeing a variety of colors, especially on the “red” parts of the birds.
When the gray card didn’t solve my problem, I investigated the possibility that the issue was that the red channel was being over exposed like I frequently see happening when photographing birds like Vermilion Flycatchers and Scarlet Tanagers. However, after reviewing a bunch of histograms I decided that wasn’t the issue either.
Eventually I got over some of the excitement of seeing a Painted Bunting and really paid close attention to the color and found that the birds really are differently colored from individual to individual, sometimes in fairly drastic ways. The camera might not be perfect at accurately recording those colors but the variation is indeed real.
Recently I encountered this male Painted Bunting and was really impressed with how different the red parts are from the typical. Near the base of the tail I can almost see some purple or blue color showing. The head and back both look pretty typical but that muted red really gives the bird a different look.
I wonder what causes these differences. Is it something about this bird’s diet or some genetic difference? I wonder what impact the color difference has on getting a mate.
Whatever the reason for it is, I think it’s pretty neat to be able to enjoy an interesting bird like this one.
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Passerina ciris
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Back in my local park, I found a few Painted Ladies. Last year, they came regularly to my yard, but not this year. However, I'm still getting adult Monarchs every day.
424) Greater Painted Snipe
Greater painted-snipe, Rostratula benghalensis, Meragi
Beautiful snipe that can usually found close to the fringes of reed beds along shorelines of marshes, swamps, ponds and streams. They feed on insects, crustaceans, molluscs and seeds.
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Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris), Laguna Seca Ranch, Texas.This species are still fairly common, but populations have been dropping for several decades. The North American Breeding Bird Survey estimated a decline of 62% between 1966 and 1995, but the 1966-2014 survey does not find significant decreases, suggesting that populations may have stabilized, or at least the decline has slowed, since 1995. Painted Buntings are popular cage birds and are often trapped on their wintering grounds and sold illegally.
Same scenario folks, she was very smitten with a very handsome Male that we will see tomorrow, the strange thing is for me anyway is the color of this gal, for as many as I've photographed they never exhibited color like this, and I have done nothing to it in edit, your thoughts please.
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