Anthocharis cardamines

Advection Frost

Dipladenia flower about to unfurl

Spotted on my weekly transect walk at King's Meadow Reserve in Nottingham (UK) - the only sighting on an uninspiring cool, breezy day (0203).

From a palm tree that produces small coconut like fruit. The trunk and fronds are covered with these thorns. They are up to six inches long and extremely sharp. The theme "tip" for today's Looking Close on Friday group inspired this photo.

Male Orange Tip butterfly in my garden

In Rathdrum 19 Apr 2021

Disgusting !!!!! - Fly tipping in Red Beck Valley

A lovely little valley and then some ********* come and dump this over a wall ......

Reported to our Local Council

Another slide restoration from the 1990s, this one showing the waste from slate mining in Wales.

Today of course, such waste is a valuable asset with many uses.

My attempt at the "Looking Close... on Friday" theme "Tip".

Shot with a Schneider Kreuznach "Makro-Symmar 120 mm F 5.9 Makro-Iris" lens on a Canon EOS R5.

weiblicher Aurorafalter

Orange tip Butterfly seen at RSPB Leighton Moss. (2123)

did try to put the Tears for Fears track here (tipping point) but for some reason I keep on getting a bad link - so I shall hum instead -----^^

Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)

Loch Spelve, Isle of Mull

Looking close...on Friday!:-)

The subject is tip . . .

Orange tip (Anthocharis cardamines) butterfly on Lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis).

RSPB Baron's Haugh, Motherwell...have learned its best not to photograph these in bright sunshine!

Just enough snow to give this bison frosted tips 😊

Aurorafalter / Orange tip / mariposa aurora / L’Aurore

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Aurorafalter

Carr Mill.

SUMMER VISITOR, to the region, observation tips, visit almost any large reedbed in southern England, and you should hear a sharp tche call, and if your very lucky they occasionally clamber up the reed stems to sing. .............

Am short of images to show at the moment, so am afraid the quality is coming down, must try harder!...............

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Captured for Looking close on Friday: Tip. HLCoF everyone!

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You can just see the orange edge of this male Orange Tip wing, the first one of the year for me. This was taken late yesterday afternoon, it was to cold for it to fly, and as the temperatures went down to -4 here last night it was still there this morning. It hasn't got much better through the day, and it is still there now on the end of this white lilac bud,

A freshly emerged female, nectaring on Forget-me-nots - soon attracting attention from a number of amorous males (Nottingham, UK) (1681).

Anthocharis cardamines

This male Orange Tip was taking a few minutes rest on his favourite sprig of Hawthorn, from defending his patch. Orange Tip season seems to be almost over. A shame as I love to see them in spring, and this was a bumper year for them.

A photograph of a golden tipped fence surrounding a portion of the Windsor Castle.

The Orange Tips have been around in my garden for a while now but this is the only one I've seen land, fortunately I had the camera at the ready, extender and all!!

Anthocharis cardamines (OrangeTip) is a small butterfly belonging to the Pieridae family. They emerge in early April. The males can be easily recognized by the orange tips of their wings which the females don't possess. They can be found throughout Europe and temperate Asia as far as China.

A Female Orange Tip butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) on the bright pink spring flowers

Old digital shot taken on a Canon EOS 40D

Martin Down, Hampshire

in the time of corona.

the dogs dig. everything has a tendency to be askew.

**I put the same photo in b&w tones below.

which do you like best, this one or the one below in comments?

As I was driving back to Anchroage from Seward I saw this mountain top. What grabbed my attention were the crisp sharp lines and angles of the snow on the mountain top.