Animals around your house...

Great!

jonesee wrote:

Handsome guy!    

Or perhaps a pretty lady  There's no dimorphism in Great Crested Grebe's plumage :) And there was another one on the same lake, but it was way too far to get a decent photo.

Such a beautyful bird !

There is a pair of Little Grebes in my lake this summer. Not nearly as impressive as the crested one, but very pretty, and they make the most unusual loud, rolling, whisteling sound

Mangalarga wrote:

jonesee wrote:

Handsome guy!    

Or perhaps a pretty lady  There's no dimorphism in Great Crested Grebe's plumage :) And there was another one on the same lake, but it was way too far to get a decent photo.

Aha! I don't identify what's male and what's female Thanks    

Last night my family rode our 4-wheelers back in the woods for a hotdog roast, and a black bear ran right in front of my dad. I have never seen him look so surprised!

What a moment, not 5 minutes away i stand in our balcony and in the evening light a small bat flyes over my head around 1 metre away. But my bad eyes cant see the bat specie:)

I've been to the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh today and look what I saw there - a Common Moorhen chick! It was very close to the fence between a path and a pond. Its mummy was very shy and hid herself among the plants but this little lad was more outgoing towards people

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What a fine, fuzzy little feller   
Great photos, Magda

Very cute   

 So cute!

Such a cutie! Beautiful pics Magda!

No pictures, but I had a bear run in front of my four wheeler the other night when I was riding in the woods. It was kind of spooky when I realized what had just run in front of me!   

Very nice photos Magda!! Thank you for sharing!

cattlecollector wrote:

No pictures, but I had a bear run in front of my four wheeler the other night when I was riding in the woods. It was kind of spooky when I realized what had just run in front of me!   

Wow, what a meeting! Indeed quite scary!   

Some more from the Botanic Garden

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And some photos from rocky seaside in North Berwick:

A little "pond" of water left in some cavity in a rock:
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And one of its tiny inhabitants - not bigger than 3 cm long :)
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First alive wild jellyfish I've ever seen!
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The rocks were covered with hundreds of tiny barnacles:
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I wanted to photograph a distant rock with birds on it and look what I've noticed on a photo - a European oystecatcher! I was excited like a child when I noticed it! I observed it for a moment through my camera (on a very strong zoom).
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Are these Eider ducks? (also strongly zoomed)
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Wow there are a lot great species!
And yes I think these are Eiders.

Wonderful critters , small and tiny   

Yes, those are female eider ducks, - I have never seen those ( as far as I know, I am very near-sighted), but jelly fish ! Sometimes it is like you can walk on the water on the coast here, there are so many Yugh !  
But the one you show is very beautyful

Amazing that you saw that little fish, he alsmost looks like rock    

I've seen plenty of dead jellyfish on Baltic coast, some alive in tanks in zoos and aquariums, but never any alive in a sea And there were a few of them!

I'd never seen Eider ducks before in real life, as far as I know they're very rare in Poland, if they ever appear there. I'd love to see a male one day!  

And there were many little fish in that pond, I noticed them only when they moved as they saw me

I've read there is a population of puffins around North Berwick, but I didn't see any Maybe another time.

I've seen tons of dead Jellies too, or some in aquariums, but that one is gorgeous and amazingly wild! Great pictures of a great sounding adventure.

     

Great photos, Magda! I love the squirrel  

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Holy Hamster !! Imagine having these running round where you live

To me this is just as exotic - or more - as if it was a flock of elephants at your doorstep

HBeautieful quails, thanks for sharing Phil:)

Looks tasty!
Wish we had those around here.

The other night I was walking out of the woods because I had been fixing a roof on my deer blind and I saw a pair of eyes glowing in the light from my flashlight a little ways of the trail and in the swamp. They disappeared but the. Reappeared a little bit farther down the trail. They did this for about 20 minutes while I kept walking, and it was kind of spooky. Eventually, it ran in front of me and I saw it was a fox. It was so mangy that it's tail looked like a opposums. Unfortunately I did not have a camera, but I hope I never see it again.