Frost-encrusted fallen leaves in East Park earlier this month.
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Green Damsel Fly
This damsel fly seemed to be watching me as calmly as I was looking at it.
It was taking a rest on an alder leaf next to the river just outside les Eyzies
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Adonis blue butterflies, females
Unlike the males, female adonis blue butterflies don’t immediately strike the eye as blue.
Like many creatures, the female colouring is one which is less likely to be noticed by predators. Look closely at the thorax – there is a bluish tinge.
(The thorax is the section of the body behind the head. It’s the bit that the wings and the legs are connected to.)
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Mistletoe with ripening berries
A seasonal-flavoured subject. I was surprised to find a mistletoe plant growing within Wolverhampton’s city limits, by a side road off Finchfield Hill. It was probably planted deliberately.
The picture was taken about a month ago.
From the exhibited ice age carvings in the museum at les Eyzies, France, a bison with its characteristic humped back …
a cave bear looking like it is stalking prey …
and another bison.
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Adonis blue butterfly
Adonis blues are another species of butterfly which you are very unlikely to see in this part of England: they are restricted to the limestone/chalk hills of the south on this side of the Channel.
The limestone cliffs of the Vézère valley seem to be just the ticket for them. They headed for flowering bushed even in the centre of the village of les Eyzies.
This one is a more showy male. The females have a brown pattern.