Trip home… again
What is suppose to be a 20 minutes trip home, took me three hours this time. I stoppped by some walls and meadows to check on butterflies and lizards.
Catch #1: Everes argiades, a pretty common little tiny butterfly with little “tail” on hind wings.
Catch #2: Podarcis muralis - Common wall lizard. I observed three animals and slightly interrupted their daily routine when I tried to get a close up of one of little fellas. These animals are highly variable. Compare this one to one I photographed about one week ago some distance away.
This is one from the three. Notice the nicked tail. It’s commonly known that lizards will drop tails to avoid being eaten. A strategy that often works quite well, especially when you’re caught in the open.
A bit less known is the scientific term of this action - autotomy.
I also saw Alcedo atthis - King fisher. A bird known for its fishing skills. I basically only saw a blue dot propelling slightly above the water, but there aren’t many blue birds around here.
