Drums beat

 The beating of the drums....Can you hear it?

ITS COMING

(Click image for sharpness...I don't know what blogger is doing with my uploads to show such unsharp images) I have to find out what's going wrong with my images being always unsharp and that the sharp images only come when you click on it)

Butterflies

Heliconus Sara (Kleine passiebloemvlinder) 

Heliconius charitonius (Zebra passiebloemvlinder) 

Heliconius  cyndo (Passion vine butterfly) (Passiebloemvlinder)

Hypolimnas bolina(Weerschijnvlinder)

Passionvine butterfly (Passiebloem vlinder)

Siproeta stelenes (Malachietvlinder)

Siproeta stelenes (Malachietvlinder)

Passion vine butterfly?

Caligo eurilochus (Owl butterfly) (Uilvlinder)

Yesterday I was in a butterfly garden. There were such beauties, most of them are imported as cocoon from the Philippines.

I don't know all their names. The ones I could find I wrote the latin names under it.

When anyone knows more names, please feel free to let me know.

drowned nuts

Squirrel is saving the drowned nuts, that I have thrown in the birdbath to see if the nuts could swim.

Squirrels are not afraid of the water at all! It has been raining as well all day...so they don't mind.

Turtle dove

 Turtle doves have such an elegance when they go for a bath...

Deep dive

 This woodpigeon loves to go for a deep dive!

Bull finches

Regularly the bullfinch is coming along for taking a bath.... and his mate too!

Mostly they come together! such a beauties!

Dove dive

Doves are so amazing!

This dove loves to go into the deep waters for a refreshment. I love watching him and coming out triumphanty.
 

Blue-tit

 Blue-tit is checking out the seeds in the verbena.

He really enjoys it. 

(Click the images for a sharp view)

Bull Finch

 An amazing beauty came along to drink some water.

His colors are outstanding, being fethered  in this candy stick pink in combination with grey and black is awesome!

Here in Holland his name is Gold-finch, (Goudvink) ( Pyrrhula pyrrhula)

which is confusing because in other countries the same bird is named Bull Finch.

Blue-tit

 When I wanted to walk to my mailbox and stepped through the door, right in front of me sat a fainting Blue-tit in shock.

He might have crashed against the glass-window or it was the heat, because today its extremely hot.

I took him out of the hot sun into some shadow. I tried to give him some water with a dropper and put his feet in a bit of water as well to help him cool down. 

Finally he flew away, so glad he did!

Swallowtail back!

Today my sister came visiting and suddenly she said: Look, look! come quickly...!!!

There he/she was....The Swallowtail is back! he/she landed while fluttering around in my garden on the verbena. As quickly as I could I grabbed my camera and was able to get a glimpse of this beautiful butterfly.

In dutch the butterfly is named Koninginnepage so I always name her Queen!

Only when summers are very warm they fly up more north from the southern countries.

Back in 2006 The butterfly was here as well and I was able to photograph the whole process of transformation from egg to butterfly (click link here for the transformation series)

It is so amazing to see the whole process...and I am so delighted to see her back!

(Click images for sharper view)

Nuthatch

 This beautiful young nuthatch just sat there ...  a bit looking around, enjoying his view I suppose.

Blackbird sunbathing

 Blackbird is enjoying a sunbath in the grass and has a yummy drink as well.