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Tricolored Heron doing its walk on water routine.

Dipladenia flower about to unfurl

Advection Frost

One from the archives for the Looking Close on Friday theme of tip. I have no idea what the plant is!

21 april 2021

I have been missing in action - painting holiday cards. :)

I'll do my best to catch up in the next few days!

Malstifte,Buntstifte.

Auswahlfoto:

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Thema:“TIP“ am 03.03.2023.

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Male Orange Tip butterfly in my garden

CPKC is really pushing the limits of their mainline in the Mississippi River floodwaters in downtown Davenport, IA as an empty ballast train heads north with KCS 3967 and KCS 4405.

Another northbound would follow the ballast train 1.5 hours later and the mainline will possibly shut down yet today with floodgates closing at Waterworks.

April 29, 2023.

A happy shot of a Douglas Fir tip. Things look so green in rain or drizzle.

Gent 08-11-2014

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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.

Giant Swallowtail butterfly taking nectar from a wild Coneflower.

Common though not so abundant this year.

weiblicher Aurorafalter

Just enough snow to give this bison frosted tips 😊

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 -----^^

Looking close...on Friday!:-)

The subject is tip . . .

When in the country I use to find antlers that had been shed, trick is to beat the field mice to the prize. That is my tip of the day on getting antler tips.

Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)

Loch Spelve, Isle of Mull

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

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

Weekly challenge for Looking close on Friday!

Viceroy butterfly surveying its domain.

Common.

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Anthocharis cardamines

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.

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.

Linda Castro Nature Center, Rockport, Aransas County, Texas

The remains of a hortensia flower, a little bit of one of the flowers is still holding on.

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

A roadside Grizzly Bear portrait photographed earlier this morning. The bear had an interesting "split" coat with beautiful frosted guard hairs on the upper half - I'm guessing it is just transitioning to a new coat / molting the old one.