Tricolored Heron doing its walk on water routine.

Dipladenia flower about to unfurl

Advection Frost

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.)

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

21 april 2021

Padiham, Lancashire

Last years leaves can still be seen on these trees

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.

Male Orange Tip butterfly in my garden

In Rathdrum 19 Apr 2021

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Giant Swallowtail butterfly taking nectar from a wild Coneflower.

Common though not so abundant this year.

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

weiblicher Aurorafalter

Just enough snow to give this bison frosted tips 😊

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 -----^^

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.

Looking close...on Friday!:-)

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Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)

Loch Spelve, Isle of Mull

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)

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Macro Mondays - High Key

Viceroy butterfly surveying its domain.

Common.

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,

Anthocharis cardamines

Male on Lady's Smock

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.

Linda Castro Nature Center, Rockport, Aransas County, Texas

Old digital shot taken on a Canon EOS 40D

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

Taken at Lichfield

Captured for Macro Mondays theme: tea.

The view while climbing the steps to Tiger Cave Temple in Krabi, Thailand

I love seeing the butterflies again. :)

While playing around with the 135mm I found this female Orange-Tip feeding.

For this picture i used the Meike ext tube set.