Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines

Family Pieridae

Subfamily Pierinae

#tip #LookingCloseonFriday

A male Orange Tip butterfly seen at Pinewoods Woodgate Valley Birmingham UK - 22-04-25

Taken at RSPB Lochwinnoch, Scotland.

Anthocharis cardamines (Linnaeus, 1758)

"Stick them with the pointy end." Basic spear training.

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Created for the "Looking Close... on Friday!" theme, PUNTA/TIP.

Burnley, Lancashire

#Lookingclose...onFriday! #Tip

Linda Castro Wildlife Sanctuary, Fulton, Aransas County, Texas

whites, pink, yellow and red rose

France; Brenne, Lignac 7/4/20

This male Orange Tip was busy flying around when he decided to settle, this was my chance to grab a few shots before he took to the wing again.

Orange tip / Anthocharis cardamons

I don't often get the chance to photograph these butterflies. They are constantly on the move and hardly ever land.

I was very lucky with this one.....except I didn't have my macro lens with me !

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from moth trap in garden

One from last year, keep seeing them go through garden but they do not stop. Will we get out in time to photograph these this year I wonder. Taken late evening with the low sun back lighting the butterfly and a little fill flash on front of subject. Kingcombe Meadows, Dorset.

a very peculiar wader / shorebird, not only because of its double name but more so because of its behavior.

From Wikipedia:

"The red phalarope or grey phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius) is a small wader. This phalarope breeds in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. It is migratory, and, unusually for a wader, migrates mainly on oceanic routes, wintering at sea on tropical oceans.

The typical avian sex roles are reversed in the three phalarope species. Females are larger and more brightly coloured than males. The females pursue males, compete for nesting territory, and will aggressively defend their nests and chosen mates. Once the females lay their olive-brown eggs, they begin their southward migration, leaving the males to incubate the eggs and care for the young. Three to six eggs are laid in a ground nest near water. Incubation lasts 18 or 19 days. The young mainly feed themselves and are able to fly within 18 days of birth.

The red phalarope is about 21 cm (8.3 in) in length, with lobed toes and a straight bill, somewhat thicker than that of red-necked phalarope. The breeding female is predominantly dark brown and black above, with red underparts and white cheek patches. The bill is yellow, tipped black. The breeding male is a duller version of the female. Young birds are light grey and brown above, with buff underparts and a dark patch through the eye. In winter, the plumage is essentially grey above and white below, but the black eyepatch is always present. The bill is black in winter.

When feeding, a red phalarope will often swim in a small, rapid circle, forming a small whirlpool. This behaviour is thought to aid feeding by raising food from the bottom of shallow water. The bird will reach into the outskirts of the vortex with its bill, plucking small insects or crustaceans caught up therein. They sometimes fly up to catch insects in flight. On the open ocean, they are found in areas where converging ocean currents produce upwellings and are often found near groups of whales. Outside of the nesting season they often travel in flocks."

Rosse Franjepoot

Phalarope à bec large

Thorshühnchen

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The famous lighthouse on Denmark's west coast has an exciting history. Inaugurated in 1900, it was hit by a shifting dune just ten years later. In 1968, the lighthouse had to stop operating because its light could no longer be seen from the sea. In 2012, the shifting dune completely passed the lighthouse and has been moving north ever since. However, the sea was now increasingly becoming a threat to the lighthouse. There was a risk that it could tip over if it crashed onto the coast. Therefore, it was moved 70 meters inland in 2019.

At home

One of the great satisfactions that digital photography brings to us these days!

Image taken in Costa Rica.

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Orange Tip - Cleethorpes.

He stopped for a second on some Stitchwort in Kinclaven Woods.

Compositionally Challenged: playing with perspective

The tip of a new leaf on a Bengal Rubber Plant

A Ruby-throated Hummingbird approaches a waiting flower.

What I liked on this shot was the bottom tip there was just a dot of light out of a ridge that caught light just above the tip.

At home

Oranjetipje ♂ - Male Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines)

A desert rarity found in small numbers on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands back in February (6829).

Seem to be having a good year, as finding plenty!

Upton Magna - Shropshire

Lots of Orange Tip Butterflies in the garden yesterday on the wildflowers - thanks to #NoMowMay. They really like the Cuckoo Flowers and I noticed a bit of a commotion on this one!

My first Orange Tip (Female) of the season on my local patch of Woodgate Country Park Birmingham. 19th April 2021

Another shot of the Orange Tip on Cuckoo Flower that visited my garden today.

Lyme Regis Dorset

Este fin de semana es el día de las Fuerzas Armadas aquí en Asturias.

El viernes con la visita del rey Felipe VI aquí en Gijon, se realizo una exhibición donde Los harriers tenían un papel muy importante.

decir que el Harrier («aguilucho» en inglés), también llamado «Harrier Jump Jet» o el «Jump Jet», es un avión a reacción militar de diseño británico capaz de realizar despegues y aterrizajes verticales/cortos (V/STOL), mediante empuje vectorial. De los muchos diseños de este tipo que surgieron a partir de los años 1960, el Harrier ha sido el único que ha tenido éxito comercial.

Feliz semana amigos

TIPS - LOOKING CLOSE.. ON FRIDAY! You know it is not easy taking a photo of your fingers while they are holding your phone camera.

A female Orange-tip at roost as the sun goes down in the background.

Palmyra Cove Nature Center, Burlington County, NJ