Golden beetle

 protaetia cuprea metallica, (copper chafer), ( gedeukte gouden tor)

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. 

Woodpecker painting

 Have recently been working on several paintings. 

Here is one of them, a woodpecker sitting in the wisteria.
Oil on linen 40x50 cm

Blue-tits are out!

Last Saturday it was The day for the blue-tits to take off.
It took a whole day, for them to fly out one by one.

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.

Squirrel swimming

 

 

 

 

  

  

 

  

 

Brave Squirrel!!!

A squirrel is coming almost every day, to cash some nuts.
I hide them in the flowerpots and sometimes in the water. 
See what happens!
He is not afraid of the water. He is a good swimmer! 

Ant

Ant struggling to find his way.

(Click images to enlarge, to see all the details)
 

Broad-bordered bee hawk-moth

Sitting outside in the sunshine, i noticed a kind of butterfly that I thought have seen before. because they move so quick and never sit still for a while. I told his to stay so that I could grab my camera for a better view.

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!

Blue-tit

 

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.