I love sanderlings. Those little waders that are running around at the beach at high speed. They always make me smile.
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Birds, birds, birds
A few weeks ago I spent some time at Terschelling, one of the dutch Waddensea islands. The place is a true paradise for birdlovers. Whenever and wherever you looked you saw flocks of birds.
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Gulls at the beach of course:
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gulls and curlews
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more curlews and some brant geese
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brant geese in the afternoon
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and brant geese in the evening
In the streets of Soissons
While on holiday in France this summer, I tried my hand at some streetphotography. I know I am not terribly good at it – I am way to shy – and still have lots to learn, but I had great fun trying.
As you already gathered from the title of this post, all shots were taken in the streets of Soissons.
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bellyslider
Some pics of solitary bees that visit our garden at this time of year. The one in the third picture we nicknamed ‘bellyslider’ because she pollinates the flowers with her belly.
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Pretty fly
To me there always were only two kinds of flies: ugly ones and very ugly ones. But now I have to change my system because this fly doesn’t fit into either category. In fact she is rather pretty (I think of her as a ‘she’, though I guess it is a male as in the animal world the males are almost always the most colourful).
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Cows
Though my greatest passion – where photography is concerned – is macro photography, every now and then I like to point my lens to something bigger. Just for a change.
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Banded Demoiselle
We don’t see these creatures very often here in the Netherlands, though they are supposed to be rather common. But during my recent holiday in France I found a place that was awash with them.
Here is a shot of the male. Love the colour.
The female has a more subdued colour, but is still rather pretty:
