Now we can move on to more light through the day, though with only one minute per day that’ takes some more patience to be able to notice the change.
For now, I’ve put on the lights..to enjoy the dark days and spread some more light.
I gave the birds some food, however it was n't exactly meant for the jay...He always scares the smaller birds, so mostly I chase him away, but because he is so beautiful I first made a photo.
Normally they never come that close near the houses. This was a special treat that he was so close.
This morning I threw some peanuts outside for the birds. Some landed on the ice. A blue jay saw them and he happily for him did not cracked through the ice
Actually it looks realy nice.
I have to find a more simple way to make my photo’s...last week I fell, and hurt my arm severely.
Xrays showed a crack in my elbow on the same spot as I had 8 years ago. So that’s kind of disappointing to not be able to use my right arm very well. My heavy telelens-camera is too heavy for my arm to hold.
That’s why my posts are a bit delayed and will be for the coming weeks...
Anyway, don’t know how long it takes...as long as it needs to be.
Squirrel knows that and it's kind of playing hide and seek...for him to find the nuts between the autumn leaves.
He is very good at it.
The paint had gone cracking on several places and even deeper under the paint, due to frost last winter. Before winter arrives, it was best to repair it, so that the frozen water cannot make the cracks even deeper. I'm so glad it succeeded.
Only with the help of a very kind and friendly neighbour who repaired it all!
Recently I discovered a beautiful cocoon on the glass of my window.
I think it's the cocoon of a Cabbage white, (koolwitje)
I could determine the larva, which is of an orange ladybird...in dutch:(Meeldauwlieverheersbeestje,) in latin it listens to the name of: Halyzia sedecimguttata.
A beautiful name for such a small creature of maybe smaller than one centimeter.
I decided to serve the food...on a place they might pass. Every night a little closer to the door so that I might see them better. Every day, for three night in a row, the little plate was completely empty, so I knew I had some visitors.
Yesterday it was bingo...I saw a hungry Hedgehog nibbling the food..He really seems to like it a lot..next morning all the food was gone! So for tonight I refilled the saucer again for a yummy treat.
He was looking quite weird. having a kind of long red tail sticking up at the rear end.
I decided to take him home and find out all about him. I put him in a glass container, so that he would not run away, before I had found out his name. (Pale Tussock)(Calliteara pundibunda)(Meridians borstel).
He is really funny, having some brushes on his back, and the red brush at the end...
His host-plants are many, like beech, oak, birch and other trees. He pupates in leaflitter and overwinter as a cocoon. So I put him out under a birch-tree in my garden, between lots of leaves, so that he can cocoon someplace he likes.
The word Lanterfant and lanterfanten has several meanings.
One is that you're wasting your precious time, by doing nothing in particular and that you're being lazy and that you ought to or do better do some useful work.
The other one is more freeing...when you 'lanterfant' and do nothing in particular, relax and rest, kind of letting go of doing useful meaningful things, like obligations, things that should be done...that makes space for more creative things...and this state of being, opens up possibilities you never thought of.
It has to do with enjoying...and delight.
Anyway, pictures speak more than 1000 words...
So nice to seem him eating...and enjoying his nuts.
It seemed to me a nice idea to help squirrel for wintertime...and feed him some nuts when he forgot his strorage places...or?
No I don't think he will forget...but somehow, just for fun to get him around... its just so much delight to see him every time seeking for more yummy nuts.
looking for his treasures...I think he himself is the treasure...
(when you click the images, they appear much sharper and you can even see all the drops on the grass! )
It's such a great sight...They are now all in the business of making storage places all over the place.
Or planting nut-trees everywhere, depending if they can remember where they keep em.
While uprooting a plant, (Campanula) I noticed at the foot of the plant some eggs!
They were more than 20. Some fell down to the earth and I thought better not to touch them anymore.
They are small, maybe 1,5 mm. Some other eggs stayed on the roots of the plant, so I took them with me for making a photo.
I think I put them back to where I found them. But whose eggs are these? Are they from a butterfly? if yes which one? or maybe from an insect? who can tell? Please let me know if you know or have an idea.
I have saved some 'last-year-nuts' for him as well. Yesterday I threw some into my pond, as I love playing games with squirrels, This is a fishing game. They have to fish the nuts out of the water. That mostly is not a problem at all, because the nuts float to the side and are easily picked out of the water. Today some nuts didn't float to the side...so for squirrel a challenge to pick them...
He is so cute and smart as well, though today it seemed to be a little difficult...the nuts were too far away and out of reach. He was kind of irritated that the nuts were out of reach. I could tell by the agitation of his swiping tail, rapidly going left and right ...!
