The Barcelona Zoo is home top a colony of herons who happily steal fish from the penguins and whoever isn’t fast enough.
Ready for take off
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The Barcelona Zoo is home top a colony of herons who happily steal fish from the penguins and whoever isn’t fast enough.
Ready for take off
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Admit it, you’ve been missing the tit pics.
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The tree is a “bird cherry”. They grow here en masse and the stains can only be removed with a pair of scissors.
Bees and I share a passion for asters
Today’s Wednesday Wings is the other kind of wings, the one on insects. We’re having a wonderful September or a way too hot one, and at least the bees are enjoying it.
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Way too light. See the opposite of a black hole in shape of a butterfly
Can’t show you my face, I’m eating
Yes, we’ve got tons of golden rod here as well. The bees seem to like it
No easy picture taking as the wind was gently blowing
Bzzzzzzzzzz
What does the colour look like to a bee?
During our holiday we took a boat trip around the harbour, with many jellyfish swimming around.
I can tell you, taking pictures was a “treat”. If they were close to us the boat would move fast and they’d be gone quickly, if the were further away the light broke too much on the surface for my angle.
Still, there were some nice ones.
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Apparently, thistles are delicious.
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And as a finale of his week’s series from rq, mostly fluffy pictures.
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One has to admire thistles. Fluffy flowers, fluffy seeds and spiky everything else.
Bumlebees and bees have similar combination of fluff and spiky, I sense a theme here.
More fluff, but where are the sharp bits?
No fluff, no sharp bits. Just a wannabe tough guy.
And finally no fluff and no shar bits whatsoever. Just perfect depth of field. I love this picture.
It turns out that a lot, even when the blooms are past their prime. I love the metallic sheen of that green fly. I would love to have a car like that.
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More juvenile barn swallows from Nightjar
Feeeeeed meeeeeee
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rq has sent us a little series about various flowers and their residents. First one is goldenrod, and it looks like Solidago canadensis, which is quite common throughout Europe. Sadly this beautiful plant is not only strong allergen in the late summer, here it is also an invasive weed that is damaging the environment by outcompeting local species and creating essentialy monocultures in places.
But enough with being a killjoy – they are beautiful and that is important here and now.
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This little fellow at the Barcelona Zoo was obviously torn between wanting a swim and actually doing it.
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Open to see the photo story.
Avalus has sent some pictures from early this year of bumblebees having a party in lavender.
I do not remember ever seeing so many bumblebees at once! I need moar lavender probably.
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The sunflower is now slowly drying, all the heads full of seeds. But when it was still in bloom, I encountered on it this beetle, one that I have never seen before. I have recognized that it is a member of the family Cetoniidae (flower chafers) but that was it.
I think that it is mediterranean spotted chafer Oxythyrea funesta, which was preliminarily confirmed to me by an actual active biologist. In that case, it is a rare sight because the beetle is rare in Czech Republic and is protected by law.
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A young blackbird in my front yard, which completely didn’t care about me “intruding” in its territory.
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