Blue-tit

Yesterday I heard a loud thumb on my glass window.

I looked and as I thought, it was the sound from a bird crashing against the glass, thinking he could fly through. I picked up the bird from the ground and put him in a small box. 

It was a blue-tit in total shock...closed eyes..breathing heavily and very fast... so that meant he was still alive.

I took my down-jacket and spread it over the small box to make it dark for the bird, as well as shielding him from the cold wind. So now and then I peeked into the box to see how the bird was doing...still heavily breathing...I hoped and prayed that the blue-tit would survive the crash.

After some more moments of waiting and looking how he was doing, he finally began to look a bit better. Again I tucked him under the down-jacket and waited some more. I was thinking to maybe take him inside the house, pondering if the warmth would do good...

So looking again after the bird I noticed he was more alive and was able to fly away!... 

Sigh... (triple times)

Peaceful and delightful Christmas

Have been busy painting birds last year, birds that visited my garden.

I maybe did not yet finished the painting, I Think I will add some seeds in the turtle-doves beaks, but good enough for now.

Wishing you a very peaceful and delightful Christmas!

digging nuts 2

 Where are my precious yummy nuts?

In the flower pot maybe?

Squirrel is digging up nuts

 Squirrel is digging up some nuts. Nuts he has stored for so long in my garden under the grass.

So good that he can find them back! 

He has such a good memory, or can he smell them where he has put them?

Lightball 3

Things are not always what they look like. 

Things are even many times exactly opposite to what has been told for decades.

Taking a perspective from above gives a total different view than looking from the earth. You see the greater picture. 

Light uncovers darkness, Truth is revealed in Light. 

The brighter the Light, the more is seen.That has been true in the past and it is true today. 

Let there be Light!

Turtles

 It has been freezing last night and the birds are very happy with some extra food.

Woodpecker drinking

 It quite rare having the woodpecker come for a drink to my birdbath.

I have maybe seen him doing that only 4 or 5 times. So I was happy to be able to catch it on camera.

Trumpet light

 Blowing some light into your world.

(Click image to see it sharper)

Light ball

 Kicking light balls in the earth.

Ladybirds

Now one week later...(see the post of Okt 16)

I had not seen the ladybirds anymore. Not on the window outside nor on the inside.

Of course I did not look for them all the time so I might have missed it. But this morning I noticed in the corner of the ceiling a black spot, when zooming in on it, there was sitting a cluster of ladybirds! more than 15 ladybirds...Somehow they managed to come into my house! Where was the open spot to enter?

Weird to me is, that some years ago I had a cluster of ladybirds sitting there on the same spot. (nov 06 2016) And an other year as well....same spot.

I have lots of other little corners in the room but no ladybird is sitting there. Why do they choose that same spot???

Is it in their DNA or does their cel-memory telling them this is the best spot to hibernate for winter?

I really have no clue why they always choose that same spot. Its very interesting...Does anyone know?

Drums beat 2

 It 's coming...

(click image for sharp view)

Ladybirds

 Today a beautiful sunny autumn day. As I went outside to sit in the sunshine for a while, I noticed lots and lots of ladybirds all sitting on my glass window. and on the other side of the house they were there as well!

I tried to count them, there were at least more than 50 ladybirds on one side! and more then 20 on the other side of the house. amazing sight...so many!

It looked like they were trying to get inside the house, and when I looked inside, at least 5 did... I tried to put them outside again. Did not get them all. Are they trying to find shelter and find a place to go hibernate? I don't know yet. Later when the sun left on that spot, the ladybirds were gone too.

Squirrel

 The squirrels still have a great time, collecting all the nuts.

My garden has become a nursery for nut-trees or a storage-place for nuts depending on the way how you look at things. On purpose I cracked some nuts so that squirrel has to eat them on the spot and sits still for a while while eating. Such a lovely sight and me being able to get some shots.

Drums beat

 The beating of the drums....Can you hear it?

ITS COMING

(Click image for sharpness...I don't know what blogger is doing with my uploads to show such unsharp images) I have to find out what's going wrong with my images being always unsharp and that the sharp images only come when you click on it)

Butterflies

Heliconus Sara (Kleine passiebloemvlinder) 

Heliconius charitonius (Zebra passiebloemvlinder) 

Heliconius  cyndo (Passion vine butterfly) (Passiebloemvlinder)

Hypolimnas bolina(Weerschijnvlinder)

Passionvine butterfly (Passiebloem vlinder)

Siproeta stelenes (Malachietvlinder)

Siproeta stelenes (Malachietvlinder)

Passion vine butterfly?

Caligo eurilochus (Owl butterfly) (Uilvlinder)

Yesterday I was in a butterfly garden. There were such beauties, most of them are imported as cocoon from the Philippines.

I don't know all their names. The ones I could find I wrote the latin names under it.

When anyone knows more names, please feel free to let me know.

drowned nuts

Squirrel is saving the drowned nuts, that I have thrown in the birdbath to see if the nuts could swim.

Squirrels are not afraid of the water at all! It has been raining as well all day...so they don't mind.

Turtle dove

 Turtle doves have such an elegance when they go for a bath...

Deep dive

 This woodpigeon loves to go for a deep dive!

Bull finches

Regularly the bullfinch is coming along for taking a bath.... and his mate too!

Mostly they come together! such a beauties!