Snailtrail

 

Last night a snail has 'walked' around and left his beautiful-colored trail, so that you can exactly see where he has been going.

Feather

Birds are losing their feathers. 

I found a beautiful doves feather, with a bit orange purple in it.

Squirrel painting

 Have been quiet for a while on my blog. 

One of the reasons is, I'm working on some paintings and then I am so absorbed in the painting that I forget a lot of other things. Like my coffee or tea sitting there next to me getting cold without having had a sip.

To me that's not a bad thing. I loose track of time and enjoy my journey of the painting.

Here is the result. Don' know yet if it is finished, for now I'm happy with it.

Squirrel-time

 

It's squirrel time again. 

Nuts are ripe and squirrel is busy finding them and put them in storage places in my garden.

This year I found a lot of young walnut-trees in my garden, which he had not eaten.

Maybe he wanted them to grow to trees for more nuts later, when this trees are grown-up there are growing more nuts!

This year the walnut tree of my neighbour has a bad year. almost no nuts on the tree.

I still have some last-year nuts which I throw out so now and then, for him to find.

So lovely to see him again.

Caterpillar Buff-tip

 

Today while cleaning a birdbath, I noticed on the corner of the bath, a soaked wet caterpillar, He was very wet and he tried to get away out of the water. So I took him out.

I remembered I had seen this kind of caterpillar years ago, but did not remember which specie it was. I saved him from the water and put him on a dry spot. 

He looked to me rather big so he might be soon cocooning. He is a caterpillar of the Buff-tip, (Wapendrager)(Phalera bucephala).

happy bunnies

doodle: 2 happy bunny's jumping up in the air.

It looks to me like a happy bunny-dance...abun-dance!
 

Blackbird molting & bathing

 This morning a molting blackbird came along for a bath. 

He looks quite undone and scruffy and messy.

We sometimes look the same way, when we are having a bath...

Hedgehog party

 One of my friends has a hedgehog in her garden. 

She has bought last year a hedgehog-house and now the hedgehog sleeps in the house all winter and summer. On top of that, she feeds him(or her) every night with some yummy hedgehog-food. Which (s)he loves very much. 

The last few weeks there is a visitor and now both hedgehogs are feasting on the yummy food and each other. Would there soon be hedgehog babies?

Even the snails are happy, not to be snacked for dinner.

I will send her this partycard in anticipation.

Rabbit

 Found back an unfinished doodle I made some time ago.

Somehow it got hidden under a pile of papers. I added some colors and there it is...

Happy bunnies.

Roses

                               

                                   

I noticed that one of my roses, had blossomed again!

This is  gorgeous rose...the colors the fragrance is exactly how I love it! I put the rose in a vase to be able to enjoy it during the day. 

I noticed that a crawly creature had delighted in the leaves and wrote a song in them.

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.