Hummingbird enjoying a red carnation.

A Badger takes a break from what they do best.

White Ibis

Swallowtail butterfly on a white mock orange flowers.

Male and Female Mallard Ducks.

A somewhat different take on Windows Wednesday :-) A tractor ready for an early shift near Delft.

Happy Windows Wednesday!

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Green Grass Dart (Ocybadistes walkeri)

I am still only seeing the one Skipper in the back garden. Today it was feasting on a Buttercup.

Happy Beautiful Bug Butt Thursday!

"I’ve spent my life looking into people’s eyes, it is the only part of the body where a soul might exist and if those eyes are lost …"

― Jose Saramago, Blindness

"Pasé mi vida mirando al interior de los ojos de la gente, es el único lugar del cuerpo donde tal vez exista un alma y si esos ojos están perdidos …"

― José Saramago, Ensayo sobre la ceguera

♫ Digging Deeper - Alison Goldfrapp & Claptone

♫ Reflections of My Life - Marmalade (Mick)

♫ In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel (Rubén)

♫ I Dig You - The Cure (Terry)

Cabbage White (Pieris rapae)

Feasting on our Abelia flowers.

Happy Wing Wednesday!

Yesterdays snowfall.

Looking for a bite to eat after the blizzard and coming up with an evergreen branch

It was interesting watching the female dig a bed out of the snow each time they found a place rest. Here it almost looks like she is teaching the cubs how to make a cozy bed!

The funniest animals in Kgalagadi Frontier national park: meerkats.

DMVW's plow extra from Wishek starts into a small drift just west of Kulm, North Dakota.

...or hidden treasure

18:52 Hidden Treasure

Dear all! I'm painfully behind right now due to other commitments. Hopefully I'll be catching up with you all very shortly 💕

Long-billed Corella (Cacatua tenuirostris)

One of a pair that were digging for graas seeds while I waited for the steam train this morning. You can see by the mud on its beak that the ground is very wet still.

Always something being dug up for reasons unknown!

Pentax K3iii & 20-40mmWR

Street Vibrations 2018

Schubert died a bit over 3 years ago in 2017 at almost 15 years old. while weeding and planting today I dug up this polaroid of him from many years ago. dunno when.

it is a sweet memory of a sweet special dog.

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green woodpecker ~ picus viridis

The green woodpecker is on the RSPB Green status list.

shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a pentax smc 50mm f1.4 m42 lens

Little Raven (Corvus mellori)

Digging for a meal near the Vic Uni Pond on this day in 2018.

A bumble bee digging deep to get the rest of the pollen from a thistle already going to seed.

San Jose, California.

Lots of different good jobs, and I chosen this..... sighs !

Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Columbo..... it was so easy for them.....

Dire Straits - Private Investigations

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9K27HvhDxA

It's a mystery to me, the game commences

For the usual fee, plus expenses

Confidential information, it's a diary

This is my investigation, it's not a public inquiry

I go checking out the reports, digging up the dirt

You get to meet all sorts in this line of work

Treachery and treason, there's always an excuse for it

And when I find the reason I still can't get used to it

And what have you got at the end of the day?

What have you got to take away?

A bottle of whiskey and a new set of lies

Blinds on the window and a pain behind the eyes

Scarred for life, no compensation

Private investigations

Studiwork by Stella and Gustaf.

A Caterpillar excavator spotted at a construction site near McKinney, Texas.

PETER: (makes strange noises)

aahh...uuhh...pffff...

OLEG: (talks to himself)

What's that noise?

I hope Peter isn't in trouble again.

(Sees Peter standing in a deep hole)

Good heavens, Peter... what are you doing?

PETER:

Ugh... pfff... a... pfff... digging a hole... that ugh... pfff... as you see, Oleg.

OLEG:

But... why? I don't think Mummy Marian will like this.

PETER:

Ugh... pfff... well... Mummy Marian should be happy... pffff... about what I'm doing... pfff. There's... pffff.... a dead fly on the pffff... windowsill in the kitchen for a long time now. That's .... dis..dis..ou..... err.... pff.. not nice of her. I'm going to bury it now... pfff... in the... pfff... garden.

OLEG:

You're doing well, Peter, but you can't say that Mummy Marian isn't nice. She's busy as a grandmother with baby Rune.

PETER: (crying)

Sniff... I mean... sniff... it's not that I don't like Mummy Marian, Oleg... sniff...

I just feel so sorry for the fly... sniff...and...and...sniff...it deserves to be...sniff buried...sniff.

OLEG:

Don't cry, Peter...I know you mean well.

Come on, I'll help you bury the fly.

PETER:

Oleg... Would you like to make a wooden cross for the grave?

OLEG:

Well... um... I'll see what I can do.

PETER:

Thank you, Oleg (gives Oleg a snuffly kiss).

The sun going down at Sand Banks end of Pool Harbour

A busy bee at the 4H Children's Garden at MSU

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One from my archives today. I am about to go out and will catch up later. This is straight out of the camera only cropped.

#241 on Explore on 2nd May, 2008.

European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)

Apart from the Bees working the Jade Plant and Daisies there are not too many other insects around at the moment.

Happy Wing Wednesday!

Young fox kit caught digging holes in the sand on a local beach

This Brunfelsia bloom is proving very popular with Orange Palm Dart Butterflies : this morning, after a heavy shower, this Skipper danced on the flower for quite some time, giving me lots of opportunities to capture him under many different angles. I found this pose aesthetic as well as amusing.

was told there was gold