Last Thursday I spent a few hours on one and the same field for the Orange Tips.

They were very active and shy, luckily I had the telelens with me. So I could keep some distance, while zooming in.

Here a male feeding from the Cuckoo Flower.

Handheld shot.

I stopped for a bird photo but it went & this Orange-tip male posed for me instead. In the upper wing back lit photo the underside markings are showing through. This is the "britannicus" sub species to the one common in Europe

Is the tip jar growing with the economy??

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I photographed this female Orange Tip butterfly nectaring on Forget-me-nots in my garden yesterday. Females lack the orange tips to their forewings which makes them more difficult to find as they are easily overlooked as Green-veined or Small Whites. Its scientific name is Anthocharis cardamines. The first bit means "rejoicing in flowers" while cardamines is the scientific name of its other main larval foodplant; Cuckoo Flower.

Zorzynek rzeżuchowiec (Anthocharis cardamines)

Messingham nature reserve, North Lincolnshire

Time to harvest. The green and mauve late spring tips are ready to be fried in butter or olive oil.

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1 of the 2 RLs with these new tippers.

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First one of these I have seen this year and this was taken near Newton Abbot Devon.

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Beringen

Sat. the 21st and Walkabout to Riverplace on the Willamette and long walk along the Waterfront.

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A female Orange Tip butterfly hanging around on my Scabious flowers.

Cadwell Park Sept 2018

Sunset taken from the Tip Top Grill in Bluff Park, AL

Some early blooming dahlias at the Dahlia Hill garden in Midland.

at the animalshelter where i volunteer.

"This is Tipper he just got brought in and is ery scared, thats why he has his own cage, where he can get used to beeing with other cats and us from a save distance, she loves to be pat"

Back Garden - one from a couple of days ago, unfortunately I was unable to get at right angles to him.

Tip:

Focussed light can be incredibly powerful. You can of course use a snoot but in most cases this will still give a bit too much light. Don't be afraid to use cardboard to block off even more of the light and really only "paint" the light where you want it.

Pair of Orange-tip butterflies mating on Bluebells. Birnie Loch Fife.

Orange Tip Butterfly. Rushey Common.

Having finally given up on days of chasing them up and down the rides, this chap settles beside me and patiently waits for me to rummage the camera out of the rucksack.

Think there might be a moral there somewhere.

Delighted to see my first Orange-tip male Butterfly in my gdn this morning in spite of a cool wind. the underside shot was taken with a lot of zoom as it was still very mobile. Still not seeing as many butterflies as usual by this time of year & not seen any Small Tortoiseshell's, most unusual but those are reported as declining species

My first Orange tip capture this year...

Oranjetipje, Anthocharis cardamines

Alblasserbos, The Netherlands

Oranjetipje, Orange tip, Anthocharis cardamine

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Yesterday was by far the warmest day so far this year so I once again walked to my local reserve. Amazingly after reaching the junction about 5 minutes from my house I only passed 2 other people (a pair walking 3 dogs) and was passed by 2 cyclists en route during the entire time.

These were the main hope of my outing and I saw 3.

This was in the reserve and the only one that settled and eventually opened its wings - though not quite fully.

Tip Toe landing... Canvasback comes in hard and soft...

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I found my first Orange Tips of the year yesterday including this very fresh male. I had to be patient after spotting him settle when the clouds came over, it took 30 mins before the sun reappeared and he opened his wings and flew off a few seconds later.