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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!
TIPS - LOOKING CLOSE.. ON FRIDAY! You know it is not easy taking a photo of your fingers while they are holding your phone camera.
Found this male Orange tip butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) in the garden the other week.
According to "UK Butterflies": "The Orange-tip is a true sign of spring, being one of the first species to emerge that has not overwintered as an adult. The male and female of this species are very different in appearance. The more-conspicuous male has orange tips to the forewings, that give this butterfly its name. These orange tips are absent in the female and the female is often mistaken for one of the other whites, especially the Green-veined White or Small White. This butterfly is found throughout England, Wales and Ireland, but is somewhat-local further north and especially in Scotland. In most regions this butterfly does not form discrete colonies and wanders in every direction as it flies along hedgerows and woodland margins looking for a mate, nectar sources or foodplants. More northerly colonies are more compact and also more restricted in their movements." www.ukbutterflies.co.uk
He runs (owns?) the small Mexican restaurant down the block from me. Too small to put many dining tables out on the street in front of the restaurant. So the main source of income during the Covid-19 pandemic is a takeout window from which they also serve drinks. Tips have always been appreciated. Now more than ever.
Using a very shallow DOF (f2.0) and placing focus on the petal tip gives this image a somewhat painterly look.
Another macro taken with entirely the wrong lens.
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Vanmiddag kreeg ik de tip dat RFO via het traject Arnhem - Utrecht zou rijden. De trekkracht voor de trein was de 1829. Dit was de uitgelezen kans om weer eens een 1800 op de foto te zetten op het toch wel mooie traject. De mooie plekken zijn tegenwoordig vrij schaars langs de lijn, maar toch zijn er nog wat pareltjes te vinden die bij menigeen fotograaf onbekend zijn. Voor een korte trein in de herfst met bewolking is de plek bij Renswoude goed te doen. De trein die de 1829 trok was nogal kort. Maar liefst 9 GATX ketels werden er vanuit Bad Bentheim meegenomen naar Kijfhoek. Ondanks het zeer matige licht en de nog beperkte herfstkleuren ben ik zeer tevreden.
Siproeta epaphus epaphus
(Rusty-tipped Page / Epafos Puntas Oxidadas)
In my garden. La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Siproeta epaphus is distributed from Mexico to Argentina. This species is scarce in lowland areas, but commonly seen in two's and three's in disturbed habitats at elevations between 400-2.300m, favouring forest edges and clearings, well vegetated riverbanks, roadsides and pastures.
The Rusty-tipped Page has large wings, averaging 7.0–7.5 cm (2.8–3.0 in).
www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Andes%20-%20Siproeta%20epap...
From L'Anse to Summit CN battles a stiff eastbound grade that tops out at 3.04% as they climb the Huron Mountains. L540 is near the top of that Climb and has reached fresh frosted trees but that didn't last as we dropped back down in elevation.
A rare macro venture
Orange-tip. -
Anthocharis cardamines
Golden Acre - Breary Marsh
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These birds (almost) always seem to look in excellent condition, probably the normal viewing conditions of a bright winters day and a healthy diet of high carotene berries helps.
I have included a shot taken a few years ago in comments below of the wax primary feather tips that give the bird its name.
Taken in Kelling, North Norfolk. Approx. 24m away.
En una fresca y nublada mañana de marzo, buscando a las Callophrys RubÃ, que no aparecieron, encontré a este pequeño escarabajo, que me sirvió para matar el gusanillo macrero, desconozco la especie a la que pertenece..
Ya volveré con mejor tiempo en busca de las RubÃ.
Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo
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Lots of Orange Tip butterflies on the wing along the River Orwell and Chantry Cut in Ipswich today! Most were pretty flighty but I managed some shots of this pair who were otherwise occupied!
Orange-tip butterflies (Anthocharis cardamines) are a common sight during spring and can be found in lots of places including meadows, woodland and hedges. Adults lay their eggs on garlic mustard, cuckooflower and hedge mustard plants.
The male orange-tip is unmistakeable. It is a white butterfly with half of its forewing being a bold orange colour, and with light grey wingtips. The female is also white, but has grey-black wingtips, similar to the white butterflies. Both sexes show a mottled, 'mossy grey' pattern on the underside of their hindwings when at rest.
Orange-tips are found across the UK, but are scarcer in the north of Scotland.
Orange-tip caterpillars are cannibalistic, eating their own eggshell when they emerge and moving on to eat other orange-tip eggs nearby. The caterpillars pupate in July and overwinter as a pupa, emerging as butterflies the following spring.
This is one of a number of photos that I took for a web site that I designed for a local horse stable. I used this one on the Contact page .... Tipper... this happy dog always greets me when I arrive.
www.skylinefarm.ca/Contact.html
It was not a photo that I planned for the site, but when I saw him there looking down the lane, I took the shot... later decided to use it.
Web Design janice@janicestreet.ca
Besides the short hind toes of this bird, the small white dots at the tips of its wing feathers distinguish it from the (longer-toed) Eurasian Tree-creeper.
Peale's dolphin is of typical size in its family — about 1 m (3 ft 3 in) in length at birth and 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) when fully mature. Its adult weight is about 115 kg (254 lb).
It has a dark-grey face and chin. The back is largely black with a single off-white stripe running, curving, and thickened as it runs down the back on each side.
The belly is white. Conspicuously, also, a white patch occurs just behind each flipper. These are known as the "armpits".
The flanks also have a large white-grey patch above the flipper. The dorsal fin is large for this size cetacean and distinctively falcate.
The flippers themselves are small and pointed. The tail fin, too, has pointed tips, as well as a notch at its middle.
The species looks similar to the dusky dolphin when viewed at a distance, and may be confused with it.
This image was taken just after we keft Punta Arenas in Chile on the way to Ushuaia in Argentina