I love alpine plants - and saw two lifers in a single hike on the weekend. The first two pictures are of Saxifraga crustsata, the encrusted saxifrage. The last picture is of Androsace villosa, the shaggy rock jasmine. I feel the leaves are almost more interesting than the flowers with both species.
I am traveling a bit through Colombia right now and it is not that hard to get at least one lifer every day… but this one must have been the coolest for me so far (shitty phone photos, but got my camera out for this one as well and will see what I got when we are back home)
We left our residence for the night early in the morning and just across the road I spotted this solifuge on the wall… there are not tooo many sightings of these in Colombia, especially when it comes to the andean region and for me it is only my second observation of this whole order of life… It made my day
On a day trip to Torremolinos I found something that was on my wish-list for 7 years, not a lifer though, because I had found a dead one before. So just a link. ;-)
But I also saw some lifers: crested tit
My family and I explored the stony beach near the mouth of the Rākaia River on the South Island of New Zealand this afternoon. The beaches on the Canterbury Bight are relatively remote, frequently nameless, and it’s always great fun to see what you’ll find.
This gorgeous Appalachian Brown (Lethe appalachia) was a lifer this morning. I’m more familiar with the similar and related Southern Pearly-Eye (L. portlandia), but I appreciate the smoother elegance of the Brown.
My “snorkelling-friday” brought me another lifer - in fact the only animal new for the year list. Cancer pagurus - the edible crab. Maybe it didn’t know that’s it’s not supposed to occur in the Mediterranean? ;-)