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Spotted on a little wedelia daisy - I'm pretty sure this is the smallest lynx I've ever shot. Then, on the computer screen, I see that there's even a much smaller critter in the frame...
~I can only take you in small doses, small doses,
Loving you, it's explosive, you know this,
I can only take you in small doses, small doses,
Loving you, it's explosive, you know this,
I can only take you in small doses~
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Bebe Rexha - Small Doses
butterfly-conservation.org/butterflies/small-skipper
Bright orange-brown wings held with forewings angled above hind wings. Males have a thin black line through the centre of fore-wing. Essex Skipper is similar but has black tips to the antenna (best-viewed head-on) and shorter scent brand which runs parallel to forewing edge rather than angled.
Small Skippers are insects of high summer. Although they spend much of their time basking or resting among vegetation, they are marvellous flyers, manoeuvring expertly through tall grass stems. It is these darting flights, wings glinting golden-brown in the sunlight, that normally alert an observer to their presence. Closer examination will reveal many more individuals nectaring or basking with their wings held in the half-open posture distinctive of skipper butterflies. The butterfly is widespread in southern Britain and its range has expanded northwards in recent years.
Size and Family
•Family: Skippers
•Size: Small
•Wing Span Range (male to female): 30mm
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Conservation Status
•Butterfly Conservation priority: Low
•European Status: Not threatened
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Caterpillar Foodplants
The Small Skipper almost exclusively uses Yorkshire-fog (Holcus lanatus), although several other grasses have been recorded as foodplants, for example, Timothy (Phleum pratense), Creeping Soft-grass (H.mollis), False Brome (Brachypodium sylvaticum), Meadow Foxtail (Alopecurus pratensis), and Cock’s-foot (Dactylis glomerata).
Habitat
Prefers open places with long grass, such as unimproved rough grassland, downs, road verges, field edges and woodland glades.
Distribution
•Countries: England, Scotland and Wales
•Widespread up to North Yorkshire and Scottish border
•Distribution Trend Since 1970’s = -7%
Kingfishers are small unmistakable bright blue and orange birds of slow moving or still water. They fly rapidly, low over water, and hunt fish from riverside perches, occasionally hovering above the water's surface. They are vulnerable to hard winters and habitat degradation through pollution or unsympathetic management of watercourses. Kingfishers are amber listed because of their unfavourable conservation status in Europe. They are also listed as a Schedule 1 species under the Wildlife and Countryside Act offering them additional protection.
There were lots of butterflies out and about yesterday, including our first Marbled Whites, but they were all very flighty! However, I did manage a shot of this Small Tortoiseshell which paused to feed for a moment or two :-)
The smallest bird in the yard yet holds its own with the larger birds always finding a way to the feeder.
From my newly found patch last weekend. Hoping to get over there this weekend for my #BigButterflyCount
Small postman
(Heliconius erato)
La especie es muy variable en color y forma. Dependiendo de la ubicación, y sus diferentes apariencias puede ser difícil de distinguir de las demás especies.
This is a close-up photo of the afternoon sunlight casting the dancing shadow of a bamboo window blind on an old television, and the reflection of my left hand in the TV screen.