Saturday, June 21, 2025

Colored clouds






While relaxing in my garden and having my lunch, looking around.
I suddenly discovered that I have many colored clouds in my garden...

Pink, blue, white, light-yellow, lilac and of course all the greens.
It's just a lovely thought, being surrounded by all these colored clouds! 

Friday, June 20, 2025

Song trush




 This young Song trush is having a great time while bathing.

You can see by his looks, how much he is enjoying it. 

Friday, June 13, 2025

Bullfinch




 What about this extremely amazing color combination.

The foxgloves happens to blossom right beside the birdbath...and then a bullfinch male, (goudvink) comes to have a bath!

So beautiful! 

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Hawfinch

 



 

I seems to me that the hawfinch, appelvink has young. 

I see him gathering food and flying away with a full beak.

I the basket above (hanging in the tree) are sunflower seeds. So to me it looks like he is picking up these seeds, the other birds spilled over the basket. 

Because he is a rare bird here, its great to have this bird having a nest close by. 

Appelvink. Hawfinch, Coccothraustes coccothraustes

 

Sunday, June 08, 2025

raining



 It's been raining almost all day yesterday.

Big splashes and drops of rain jumping up and down in the birdbath. 
As if the raindrops maybe wanted  to have a warm bath too.
Maybe that's it... raindrops trying to have a warm bath...why not?

Friday, June 06, 2025

Te voet post

Recently I made another stamp for my brother in law.
During new-year he had made his best wishes cards and drawn a stamp on the enveloppe.

And then delivered the mail himself, without delivering it  through the regular snailmail-deliveryservice.

He wrote on the stamp, Te voet post, Mail by foot.

I found that very funny, so I made for him some stamps with his drawing on it. 
 

Thursday, June 05, 2025

Stamp

When you have followed my blog for quite some time, you might know that I love stamps. 

Recently I had some stamps made for my sister as a birthday present. 

I asked her to let me know what should be the theme and subject for the stamp. She came up with this. In the area were my parents and their grandparents family were born, there is growing a very rare flower. not in other places in our country, as far as I know.

When I was a child these flowers were already very rare, and at that time we were told not to pick them because they are protected. So now many decades later, they are very, very rare. I have very lovely memories of that time.

Its the wilde kivietsbloem ( (Fritillaria meleagris) (Checkered Lilyflower.)

They are beautiful lovely flowers in white and purple-ish colors. only growing in wet meadow lands.
I asked her to sent me a stamp in the mail. 
So here it is!

Friday, May 30, 2025

Proof copy of my books


 I just ordered 4 proof copies of 4 books I made.

Like the other ones they will be available on Amazon 

Have been working quite some time editing and making the stories available for sale.
I took me a while since I did the last books some 1,5 years ago.

A lot of back-lash and obstacles hindered me to get me on the go again with these books. But now I did. You can also read them in my blog, where I originally created them. 

Because they get lost in the archives. I wanted them more available for people.

I soon hope to publish them after I have approved them.

Thursday, May 29, 2025

Robin young




 My garden has lots of flying young coal-tits, blue-tits and even a young robin or more.

It's not so easy to have a good photo, because they are constantly on the move. 
Here I captured a young robin who is begging for food. The parents are very busy to get their beaks full.

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

woodpecker





 This is so amazing.

I have put some sunflower seeds and oats in the feeding basket for the birds.
The birds are really enjoying it. Today, a woodpecker has discovered the seeds as well...
With his beak full of seeds he flies to and fro to his nest...looks like he has young and lots of woodpecker babies to feed.
I love to see how many seeds he can hold all together in his beak.

Saturday, May 24, 2025

Flycatcher


Here a female flycatcher is having her daily late afternoon bath.
Her young are almost ready to fly.

I see them (male and female) flying all day to and fro to the bird box.

I expect the young to be ready tomorrow or the day after.


Oh, and here is the male having a break for his bath, in between feeding the young.

 

Friday, May 16, 2025

Gold finches




 Everyday, last week, there are a couple of goldfinches, (carduelis carduelis, distelvink, putter) having a bath in my birdbath!

I greatly enjoy them. They are so colorful with a red face and yellow feathers.
They are so beautiful!

Monday, May 12, 2025

Bull finches




 The bull finches (goudvinken) are around again in my garden. 

Having a bath in my birdbath every day and even two or three times a day. 

They are such beautiful stunning birds. Once you've seen a bullfinch, you will never forget them. 

The male looks like a candystick in his pink-orangy colors. Here he is watching in a branch, while she is having a bath.

This morning I heard him sing, which was as well so beautiful.

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Little wren



The smallest of the smallest, having a bath. 

He is so quick and cute.

Monday, April 28, 2025

Flycatchers





 The flycatchers have been inspecting several nest boxes. 

Here you see the female and the male do close inspection, to see if this is the one.

However I did not see them for several days around this nest box. It might be that they decided to pick another one.