mouse

The mouse was gratefully received by one of the young.
who kissed the mouse goodbye.

falcons

the fluffy white grey babyfalcons are almost ready for flight. (see post of 13 july
and 14 july)
when I came this morning to have a look
mother falcon just had caught a mouse
which he delivered on the spot.

the gold seed

been working on a painting.
called 'the gold seed'.

one golden seed planted in the earth.
(detail above photo)
One seed producing a forest

fennel

flowers of fennel (bronze sweet fennel) or foeniculum wrapped in raindrops.

fly me like the wind

multiplication

the one seed

scattering seeds

seeds poppy

countless seeds in one seed-container-vessel of a poppy.
only one flower...producing so many many seeds.

if I would have the patience I would count them... but I don't. :-)

eagle breeding

on many eggs

king of the winter

the 'king of the winter', as this bird is called in dutch, (winterkoning)
wren is having a warm summerbad

speckled robin

When robins are born,
they don't have their well known red breast yet.
They are first speckled, with a slight reddish brownish fade on their breast.

but all the characteristics, movements and behaviour...
is typical robinlike!

up

then after fixing their rings, inspection,
measuring wingspan and weigh their weight..
they made up the journey back in the bag.
Then....
I climbed the high ladder to make a photo in their domain...

1 egg

one egg did not hatch..
the egg is beautiful spotted,
almost round....
slightly coned on one side.

ring

waiting for their turn to get ringed.

fluff balls

all the fluffy balls were taken out of the bag,
for me, so they could pose for a photo.
meanwhile loudly exercising their voice

young kestrels

The 2-week-baby-kestrels were transported to the ground in a big bag,

looking inside the bag....was this...what I saw.

3 beautiful fluffy white-grayish down balls
& dark round big eyes looking... staring in fear,
not understanding the unexpected journey.

Today they were getting their rings...

baby common kestrels

Today I had a chance to see 3 young baby common kestrels.
They are born in a nest box very high on a huge pole.
In Dutch they are called 'tower-falcons'...
probably because they like to live in high towers.

The Kestrels were getting their rings today.

buds

buds of Thalictrum, just before opening up

rose

rose.