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Uromastyx Aegyptia, also called "Dhub" in Arabic, is a lizard that can reach up top 90 cm long, and lives in Middle East and Northern Africa's desertic or semi-desertic areas.
Its colour is changing with daytime : when going out of its burrow in the morning, the skin is mainly grey, like on this photo that was taken around 9AM. As the sun rises, their skin absorbs light radiations and turns into a sand-like tone.
This lizard is herbivorous, feeding on any kind of vegetation that it can find around. It never gets very far from its burrow, where it moves back quickly at any sign of danger.
In some locations, like in Saudi Arabia, it is considered as eatable and even a prized delicacy.
Wow, I never got this close to a wild (Eurasion) hawk before! As I inched the car slowly closer and closer this fellow didn’t budge. Most hawks fly away long before you even get close. Driving a car helps a bit. This is only a simple portrait but given the fact that this wild bird stayed put is something I never experienced and wanted to share. These are rare occasions. Of course there are loads of pictures, like this one, of these birds taken at bird shows.
Een uniek moment deed zich voor. Deze wilde buizerd (geen vogel op een roofvogel "show"!) bleef rustig op zijn paaltje zitten toen ik langzaam met de auto heel dichtbij kwam. Ik had ruim de tijd om veel plaatjes te schieten. Dit is gewoon een ordinaire portretfoto maar het moment was voor mij heel bijzonder. Deze kans krijg je maar zelden. Meestal zijn roofvogels erg waaks en zijn ze al lang vertrokken voordat je dichtbij bent.
Die Kegelrobbe (Halichoerus grypus) ist Deutschlands größtes wildlebendes Raubtier. Diesem Examplar auf der Insel Düne war aber weniger nach Jagen sondern vielmehr nach einem abkühlenden Bad. Im Frühjahr steht der Fellwechsel an, und in dieser Zeit lässt es sich nicht besonders gut schwimmen und tauchen. Auf dem Foto ist es gut erkennbar: Das längere, bräunliche Fell ist schon zum Teil durch das neue, kürzere graue Fell ersetzt worden.
A day out photographing Kingfishers. It was likely to be the last chance of 2021. The light was dull to start with but improved during the afternoon.
In a short period of late afternoon light The female Kingfisher posed for the camera.
Announced by the weather service, yet still surprising: The first snow falls silently, transforming the landscape overnight. From a meteorological perspective, it’s a completely normal phenomenon, yet this first encounter with snow always enchants us, as if we’ve never seen or understood it before.
Common spotted-orchid, in German: Fuchs' Knabenkraut, Dactylorhiza fuchsii.
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