![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2016/primroses10jan2016a.jpg)
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2016/cowslip9jan2016a.jpg)
Gautama is still fine, if disturbingly green!
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2016/iriscatgautama9jan2016a.jpg)
The flash in that picture makes him look particularly bright. In reality, he is well camouflaged and inconspicuous:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2016/iriscatgautama9jan2016c.jpg)
Other leps sitting it out until the warm months include brown hairstreaks ...
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2016/betulaeegghuemoz9jan2016a.jpg)
... and white admirals:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2016/camillahibernaculum12jan2016a.jpg)
In that picture, the smaller leaf on the left is the hibernaculum. The larger leaf on the right is the last leaf the caterpillar fed on, still attached to the stem because of the silk tracks left by the caterpillar, and probably also by the silk he deliberately laid to fix the hibernaculum leaf.
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2016/camillahibernaculum12jan2016b.jpg)
These are the same two leaves back on 3rd September:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2015/camillacathibernaculum3sep2015b.jpg)
The terminal leaves have since fallen.
As we walked home from photographing that hibernaculum today, it began snowing in earnest. Fingers crossed, winter has finally arrived for real and Minnie and I can get some cross-country skiing in ...
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2016/minniesnow12jan2016a.jpg)
Guy