Hole-cutter

I've been intrigued by finding out that there lives a Hole-cutter in my garden.
Everywhere I look he has cut some holes in the leaves in various shapes and forms.
He seems to like only the soft greens and not so much the more crusty hard nerve of the leaves.
Like I loved to eat the bread and leave the crusts on my plate.
I love his artistic forms in all variations

Fall gifts

Even after the fading...new life is coming forth in small beautiful packages.
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Gifts of imperfections

Even in falling apart and fading away there is such a beauty.
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Flying birds

While the sun was shining inside my house,
I suddenly noticed these flying birds on my floor.
The blurry shadows give the impression of real flying birds.

In reality however, the birds are glued on my windows, (to prevent the birds from crashing).
They casted a shadow on my floor.

Apples

Lots of little apples on the Malus tree.
Its so beautiful to see them blushing.

poppy3

Today its even more eaten.
the white anemones a few days ago so perfect, has gotten holes.

Poppy2

It looks as if there has been eaten some more...

poppy's

The yellow poppy seems to be eaten.
I wonder who is responsible.

Blue-tit's feathers-styling

Have a look at the different feather-styles a blue-tit can make
while he is enjoying his bath.

Poppy-butterfly

From a distance, sitting in my studio and looking outside and
not seeing all the details, it just looked like a butterfly.
Just look through your eyelashes, then you see what I mean.
A poppy-butterfly waving with the wind.

Poppy's

Poppy's are blossoming for the second time.
A few months ago it looked like the plants would not survive.
Snails were making salads of it.
It planted them in a bigger container and to my surprise they all came back!

Chiffchaff or Fetus

Today, a very vibrant and quickly moving bird in the birdbath.
Checking if it is a Fetus or a Chiffchaff, I found that the Chiffchaff has darker legs..
so I think it is a Chiffchaff then.
Other differences is the sound, but I did not sing while he was bathing.

Making rain

Its been sooo extremely dry, the last couple of weeks,
 so I made my own rain for the plants, in order to not be like a dry valley.

Blackbird after his bath, relaxing, preening

Its still extremely hot.
Too warm for me to sit in the garden.
This blackbird is trying to cool down as well.
After taking his bath, he is preening and relaxing,
Taking his time.
As you can see he is molting,
His neck is quite untidy.

Sparrows in my garden!

I could not believe my eyes, when I noticed a group of sparrows in my garden!
Many times I begged to some friends who have lots of sparrows in their gardens,
to give me some of their sparrows.
They never did.
Today, maybe because of the extreme hot summer days,
I suddenly saw this flock of sparrows landing in my birdbath, coming for a drink.
I was amazed to see them.
Immediately I filled the basket with some oatmeal, maybe they wanne stay!

Hollyhock 2

After a long holiday-silence,
The same hollyhock as one month ago, has almost finished blossoming.
However, during this time the plant has made lots of seeds.

Hollyhock

The hollyhock, Alcea Rosea, Stokroos, is blossoming abundantly.
I love the red color of this one
and it has lots of buds coming!

Bull finch again

Yesterday I was so happy to see the fiery bird again!
He arrives very quickly,
takes a sip from the water and as soon as he sees something move, he's gone.
So that makes it difficult to get him on my camera.
Yesterday I had only one shot and I thought it was not sharp.
Looking at it today...I was surprised to see the photo is sharp!