I don't know how many have been born. (they can have 5 -12 young)
Such a great sight to see them peek out the hole.
I wonder what they are thinking...when they see there is a whole world out there.
And fly into the unknown.
That's a challenge. There is no option to stay inside the small box.
Freedom always wins.
Which he did.
He moved from one violet to another and I was able to get some nice pics.
I looked it up. I thought it was a hummingbird-butterfly, as we name it here. but they gave me a different name, which appeared later to be the same one.
Got some lovely close ups...while he is drinking violet-nectar.
Broad-bordered bee hawk-moth, Glasvleugelpijlstaart, Kolibrievlinder, Hemaris fuciformis.
He seems to be a night moth, but he's flying during the day.
Such a beauty!
The blue-tits have young.
For at least a week, the parents fly to and fro tho the nest-box.
I am always curious what's up for dinner. In the beginning its very small caterpillars.
Then later the caterpillars are bigger, matching to the size of the beaks and stomacs of the little ones.
They feed mostly caterpillars of different sizes.
I was sitting outside, enjoying the sunshine and my lunch, when something tickled on my leg.
I brushed it off and while I looked what it was, I noticed that it was a very bright green tiny beetle.
I tried to get him on a small stick, which he allowed. Put him on a table, to get my camera.
Interesting such a bright green shiny green creature.
He has amazing big black eyes.(click photo to see it better)
I wanted to know it's name of course. So I looked it up.
It's a (Green weevil, Groene struiksnuitkever, Polydrusus formasus)
I love the photo that he spreads his wings.
And shortly after I had spotted this green beetle, My eye caught another one.
A bright red beetle.
He posed from both sides...so that was nice.
It's a (Cardinal Beetle,Zwartkopvuurkever, Pyrochroa coccinea,
I was so happy to see him again.
Then a few days later I saw him again. He drank some water, and came very close to where I was sitting. He dug out a hidden nut out of a flowerpot.
I could hear the scraping and the scratching of his sharp teeth, to open the nut and then he started eating.
It was amazing that he did not notice me, because I was sitting less then a meter away from him. Maybe 70 cm.
Of course I did not dare to move. Very quiet I observed his actions so close. What I did notice that he was so slow. not like I know squirrels behave. Maybe he is sick...even not noticing me...?
But after a slow drink he ran away, like normal.
I thought maybe he is just slow and nothing wrong...
Next day he was there again...now soooo extremely slow. He tried to drink some water.
I knew and could see, he was not right.
He was very ill.
I observed his extremely slow movements. For a while he sat dozing on a pot with thyme.
I could tell this is not good. Later he went away, after he dozed a while on the warm stones.
Being in a wheelchair now, because a fall last year, I could not help him.
I felt so sad that I could not help him, then just feeling so sorry for the little creature.
A lot of people think they are pests. maybe because of too many.
Anyway, When you look closely, (click the images to enlarge) you see such beauty in detail!
Which makes me wonder, that no artificial intelligence can imitate such lively beauty.
I began thinking that he might be caught by the neighbors cat. I saw the cat recently having a bird.
Can't stand that. Anyway.
This morning the flycatcher sat on the fence.
It was still early so that made it a bit difficult to get a good photo.
He is checking nest boxes.
