A Guide To The Birds Of Europe
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Common Buckeye butterfly goes for a deep sip of nectar as it pokes down into a Lantana flowerhead.
Considered an uncommon migrant into the area from the south. Abundance varies from year to year.
This owl had been staring intently at the ground off and on for a period of time but never actually left its perch.
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Southern Emerald Damselfly
Zwervende pantserjuffer
Leste sauvage
Lestes barbarus
Südliche Binsenjungfer
El caballito del diablo esmeralda
Vandrande smaragdflickslända
Pałątka południowa
Foltosszárnyjegyű rabló
A medium sized hawker flying in late summer to early autumn. It is also called as horsebiter, but that's only a name. They are eating insect such as flying ants.This species may be confused with Aeshna juncea. Feeds mainly in the afternoon and evening. When perched they hang vertically to catch as much sunlight as possible.
The male is brown with blue markings. The female (above) is brown with yellow markings.
Common Tern - Sterna Hirundo
Juvenile
It is strongly migratory, wintering in coastal tropical and subtropical regions. Breeding adults have light grey upperparts, white to very light grey underparts, a black cap, orange-red legs, and a narrow pointed bill. Depending on the subspecies, the bill may be mostly red with a black tip or all black. There are a number of similar species, including the partly sympatric Arctic tern, which can be separated on plumage details, leg and bill colour, or vocalisations.
Breeding in a wider range of habitats than any of its relatives, the common tern nests on any flat, poorly vegetated surface close to water, including beaches and islands, and it readily adapts to artificial substrates such as floating rafts. The nest may be a bare scrape in sand or gravel, but it is often lined or edged with whatever debris is available. Up to three eggs may be laid, their dull colours and blotchy patterns providing camouflage on the open beach.
Population:
UK breeding:
12,000 pairs
The Migrant Hawker is one of the smaller species of hawker dragonflies. It can be found away from water but for breeding it prefers still or slow-flowing water and can tolerate brackish sites. The flight period is from July to the end of October. ''A. mixta'' occurs in North Africa, southern and central Europe to the Baltic region.
Die Traubenhyazinthe kam im 15. Jahrhundert aus der Türkei nach Deutschland. In Unterfranken wird sie "Schlotfeger" genannt.
(Opteka Nahlinse 10x)
- Grape hyacinth -
“The Rufous Hummingbird makes one of the longest migratory journeys of any bird in the world, as measured by body size. At just over 3 inches long, its roughly 3,900-mile movement (one-way) from Alaska to Mexico is equivalent to 78,470,000 body lengths.” ~ Cornell's all aboutbirds.org
No wonder the little male peanut chooses to perch on the tiny stick each night while here.
"One of the feistiest hummingbirds in North America. The brilliant orange male and the green-and-orange female Rufous Hummingbird are relentless attackers at flowers and feeders, going after (if not always defeating) even the large hummingbirds of the Southwest, which can be double their weight. Rufous Hummingbirds are wide-ranging, and breed farther north than any other hummingbird. Look for them in spring in California, summer in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, and fall in the Rocky Mountains as they make their annual circuit of the West."
Love to see these tiny, feisty hummingbirds.
Behind a market stall in Kunming, the capital of the Chinese province Yunnan
Catopsilia gorgophone Yellow Migrant
The adults have a wingspan of about 6 cms. The male has forewings that are white with black edges, and has hindwings that are deep yellow. The female has forewings that are pale yellow, with a subterminal arc of brown spots. The hindwings of the female are yellow.