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This weekend featured two wonderful mornings with beautiful sunrise and dense groundfog. Despite this ideal weather for landscape photography, I had other plans and with pain in my photographic heart, had to ignore the foggy world around me. On Friday, I visited a small but worthwile nature reserve close to home. I had not been there […]
Last week, I wrote about the x-factor of the Bluethroat. Well, last Friday I went back to nature’s studio to listen to another live concert. It was a disappointing show and all three male contestants had to go to the sing-off because of a very meager performance. In the end, the jury (me) decided to send […]
If I had to name one bird that without a doubt has the X-factor, it would certainly be the Bluethroat. When the males arrive from Africa in March, they introduce beautiful blotches of color to the budding landscape. From behind, they are a dullish brown. However, underneath those clothes is a wonderful red fan-tail, which they […]
No time to go out and photograph this weekend, lots of household chores to do, as well as a quickstart to the annual springcleaning. So here’s one from last week. Back then, temperatures rose to double digits for the first time, a sure sign that the annual Toad migration would be on the verge of […]
It’s that time of year again. From the middle of March on, when temperatures rise into the double digits and the air is a bit moist, male Moor Frogs come into heat. Thanks to an ingenious physical process, their bodies take on a beautiful blue color. Moreover, the males make plopping sounds. Imagine hundreds of people opening bottles […]
The ice age is coming to an end, at least for this year. Only the nights and early mornings can still be very cold. The result is a tiny layer of remaining ice on small bodies of still water, like rainwater that cannot drain into the earth because of the still partly frozen ground. This […]