Bird on eggs 2

What happened to the bird  breeding on the many-colored eggs?

See post of july 6.

You can see here that there has been some progress in the breeding.
Two lovely colored baby-chicks have been born.

                               Mother-bird looks quite surprised when she peeked under her wings.

Boxing hares

 I was on my bike for a joyride.

On my way I saw 2 hares in a meadow, chasing each other. Mostly you don't see them at midday, so that was a surprise seeing even 2!

Shortly after they started kickboxing. It looked amazing...how they were kind of fighting together. Later I noticed that one was chasing the other one away. Maybe the other tried overruling his territory. When the other was far away enough, the first one ran back.

It looked like a dance...though it was probably not, but I really enjoyed it. later I made a small doodle of the dancing, kickboxing hares.

Bullfinches together

 Today, the bullfinches came together to have a bath. Lovely nice weather and lost of splashing!

female bullfinch

Last week I have been sitting with my camera on my watch post, to be able to capture the bullfinches.

Mostly they came once a day. In the beginning it was between 10 and 11 in the morning, but later they had another schedule for bathing. 

Anyway, passion and patience did the job for me.

I also made some oil paintings. They are such inspiring beautiful birds.
 

Bullfinch/goldfinch

 

Almost every day I saw the bullfinch in the birdbath smashing around. (Here named Goldfinch)

So much orange/pink in a bird is astonishing!

Happy cat

Happy cat
 

Bird breeding

Doodle, 

Bird breeding on many coloured eggs.

Empty cocoon

 Yesterday I noticed that the cocoon was empty!

This was not according to my plan!

I had the cocoon taken inside, on some branches and leaves in a jar, to be able to follow the process of transformation easily and keep my eye on it. I was really disappointed to notice the the ladybird had come out, without me.

And to make it worse... where is he? Now, roaming around in my house without food would be a small disaster. I looked for him everywhere on the walls and windows...no ladybird to be seen anywhere.

However, today my sister came along and I showed the small empty cocoon and told the whole story that I wanted to photograph or maybe film the whole process... She suddenly noticed the ladybird sitting under a leaf where he sat in hiding!

I was so relieved to notice he had not flown away, but had waited for us to see.

I took some pics and then set there little jar with branches and leaves outside. No that he can fly away to find his food and have a free life!

So glad it all finished well!

Cocoon ladybird

I should have posted this on June 29th. For some reason I did n't.

The cocoon made some lifting movements. Stretching up and down. And then stopped for a while. I was hoping the ladybird would come out soon. but as it was getting dark, it did not.