NatureWithSteve OP , 12 days ago

Dad's #garden has provided me with many opportunities for #WildlifePhotography over the years, even when he was no longer able to tend to it. Pics here from 2016 to earlier this year, clockwise from top left: Common #Frog, #Robin, Seven-spot #Ladybird, and Brimstone #Butterfly.

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A European Robin perched on top of a globe-shaped garden light. This is a juvenile, almost in full adult plumage (so he or she has a brown cap, back, wings and tail, orangey-red on the face and chest and a whitish belly) but the feathers are little 'scruffy' in places, especially around the head, where the transition between young and adult feathers has not been fully completed.
A male Brimstone butterfly on Sweet Pea flowers. The Butterfly's wings, held closed together above the body, are a bright greenish-yellow colour, with pointed corners giving a leaf-like shape, and with noticeable veins plus a single, small brown mark in the middle of each one. The underside of the furry body, and the legs, are also yellow, while the top of the head, the eyes and the antennae are shades of brown. The Sweet Pea flowers are a pinkish purple, with paler patches.
A Seven-spot ladybird (or Ladybug) on a pale green leaf. This is a small, rotund beetle with shiny red wing cases, each case bearing three black botches, with a seventh black mark spread across both close to where the abdomen meets the thorax. The thorax is black with some white markings and small head is black, with short brown antennae. The legs, also short, are black.