The exhibition will be from Juli 04 until October 17
Here is a link about the location.
Here a link about how to get there.
by car or train info
see image below of the watchtower
Its it a tiny caterpillar making these lines?
I think I can see a very small creature on the lines.
After waiting and sitting ready with my camera, The young woodpecker came.
Such an adorable bird.
The brilliant red on top of his head is amazing.
It's a different place than the parent, who has the red spot more at the back of his head.
When the parent is there, the young acts, as if he is not able to pick the food for himself. However, when the parent has gone, the young is well able to pick the food...
He is so adorable.
This morning I saw a new insect. I had never seen before.
I got my macro lens,and made some beautiful photo's. Because he sat on the edge of the birdbath, he got a beautiful water dropplet on his shield.
I looked it up and got the name, he's called a golden beetle, though in english he's named with a copper shield. That's weird. I like the gold better!
Unfortunately The photos I took with my Canon camera are ot in the folder I put them in. I don't know what happened.
Before I put the memorycard back in the camera, I always delete the photo's so that I don't get all doubles.
So cannot get the photo's back. This is it.
Anyway, Happily I had also made some photo's on my phone. However these are less quality than I take with my Canon.
Here is one of them, a woodpecker sitting in the wisteria.
Oil on linen 40x50 cm
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,
