Tricolored Heron doing its walk on water routine.

Dipladenia flower about to unfurl

Advection Frost

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

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

Looking Close... on Friday: Tip

On tonight's episode of "Cats Are Perfect": the ear! This delicate, soft little ear possesses 32 muscles (we poor humans only have 6) and allows cats to keep their balance, move their ears 180°, and of course hear 5 times better than us. It never ceases to amaze me how these little killing machines with superfeline powers can be so graceful, elegant, beautiful... and so, so cute! (Incidentally, the cuteness is... not incidental. They share baby-like features with lots of baby animals, which makes us subconsciously attracted to them. But these devious little monsters have also managed to tune their purring to a human baby's cries, triggering our instinct to protect, help... and smooch. We are being totally manipulated. And we love that.)

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.

Padiham, Lancashire

Last years leaves can still be seen on these trees

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

Giant Swallowtail butterfly taking nectar from a wild Coneflower.

Common though not so abundant this year.

weiblicher Aurorafalter

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

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

Spring is in the air after a slow start! The first pair of the season on a local nature reserve close to home (Nottingham, UK) (1628)

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

Just enough snow to give this bison frosted tips 😊

In Cornwall

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.

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

For Flower Friday

Happy Friday!

Viceroy butterfly surveying its domain.

Common.

Weekly challenge for Looking close on Friday!

Rusty-tipped page (Siproeta epaphus) or brown siproeta, is a New World butterfly that lives all year in tropical habitats. Seen at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park's Butterfly Jungle

Took this on a rainy/ cloudy day, so its more dull than I wanted but Im still glad I got a shot of one : )

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.

Tips of clouds lit up. They were totally gone as soon as the sun set!

By the River Clyde at Baron's Haugh NR...saw 5 species of common butterfly in 2 hours which was nice to see.

Linda Castro Nature Center, Rockport, Aransas County, Texas

#tip #LookingCloseonFriday

Looking Close on Friday: tip

Methinks I’ll stop now- this one is pretty darn good!! Sometimes my little iPhone acquits itself nicely!!

.......💙 HLCoF 💙

Old digital shot taken on a Canon EOS 40D

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

Martin Down, Hampshire

Captured for Macro Mondays theme: tea.