Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Wildlife and other Critters

Thematic Photographic 349 is Wildlife.  


Here's some of the wildlife I saw in Europe this northern summer...

(Please click to enlarge)


Storks, in Morocco




I love storks...







The heron is my new header photo above.
He was near Volendam, in The Netherlands:





This swan was one of the many on the canals in Amsterdam




and these were in Bruges, one of my favourite cities ever






You may already have seen this Canadian Goose in an earlier post. 
It gave me the eye at Leeds Castle.





At Dunrobin Castle, in Scotland, I saw a fascinating demonstration
by the resident falconer. There were falcons, hawks, and an owl - brilliant.














You can see other people's photos if you visit Carmi Levy's Written.Inc



Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."
- Sir John Lubbock
- See more at: http://wilderness.org/article/famous-quotes#sthash.9iDczeJY.dpuf

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."
- Sir John Lubbock
- See more at: http://wilderness.org/article/famous-quotes#sthash.9iDczeJY.dpuf
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."
- Sir John Lubbock
- See more at: http://wilderness.org/article/famous-quotes#sthash.9iDczeJY.dpuf

8 comments:

  1. Love it.
    Except for the no longer wild camel which makes me sad.

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  2. Those are wonderful waterbird pics, love the new header, Alexia.
    ~

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    1. Thanks thunder. I did see other wild creatures, but by chance this post is entirely bird-filled!

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  3. I like Heron's also. We have a lot of them here, where I live. Also, soon the Canada geese will come south to the valley for the winter, in huge V shaped flocks. Won't be long now. They take over the fields. Some of the farmers have goose cannons that make loud booms intermittently, supposed to scare off the flocks, so they don't eat their newly planted seed.

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    1. Herons are beautiful birds. We have them in New Zealand - there is a very rare white heron, which I have never seen.
      And the Canadian geese have made it all the way here, too.

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  4. Lovely collection of wildlife shots. The heron and the owls are special for me.

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    1. Thank you Bob. The owl was just beautiful; I had never seen one up close before, and it was a very special experience.

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