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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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!

Bastian taking a dust bath by the newly planted strawberries.

Bastian (mixed breed), 12.05.2016.

Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera

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.

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.

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

San Jose, California.

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

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

A Black Squirrel digging in deep snow, looking for his buried walnuts.

Exeter,Ontario

Canada

I went out to look at the lilies today and was lucky enough to come upon this Yellow Swallowtail digging right into the center of this Orange Lily!

Ards Allotments, Newtownards, Co Down, Northern Ireland, UK

Imagine if you will being a miner and listening to this drill digging away at the rock underground. Often these fellas had no ear protection and got all sorts of problems with grip because of the constant vibrations of the machinery

He was digging a hole to sit in.

He was watching me all of the time.

And the hole is still there.

I rarely ever stick with a look for very long, but this is a fave. Too lazy to edit this in anyway.

Sometimes I think photography is what strikes you at the time. You just drive around until you see something interesting.

This was one of those moments. Usually these are yellow to orange in colour.

Happy Saturday

Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis)

The pair of Silvereyes have visited several times over the past few days to feast on the Loquats.

I am running late today as we have some plastering being done in the house. I will catch up as I am able.

Happy Wing Wednesday!

I was lucky enough to spot this fine Red Deer stag digging through the snow to get to the soft grasses below. You can see the snow being kicked up by it's front left hoof ..

New Holland Honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae)

Feasting on Gum Flowers at Footscray Park