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welcome spring

welcome spring

    April was a chilly month. We do not have the welcome to spring until the beginning of May. In nature, there has been a spring awakening for a long time. There is little greenery, so it is not visible. Many birds have not yet returned from their wintering grounds....

a short spring trip to the forest

a short spring trip to the forest

   Spring this year is late and cold, we decided to take a short spring trip to the forest. It was cloudy. It is difficult to count on very good photos. This forest is famous for its great flowering areas of anemones. Before the leaves appear on the trees, anemones...

a humble beginning of spring

a humble beginning of spring

    We already have one week of April, and I hardly notice this modest beginning of spring. Some early spring flowers have appeared. The grass is barely green. It was dry for a long time and with frost. Only the goat willow has developed its buds. Starlings, finches,...

Such small and modest new butterfly

This modest blue butterfly was taken in the glade of the old pine forest. I had big trouble because the butterfly was flying high and then perched on short time. Only one shot I managed to take. The Holly Blue is a beautiful butterfly, with pale silver-blue wings...

three new species of the butterflies

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It was very hot day but I went on a walk with my camera in a bag. On the gentle hillock saw many butterflies but very lively. I managed to take a few shots of them. After them appeared that three of them they are new species to my collection. Two of them Zygaena and third it’s Blue-spot Hairstreak.

The young owl

   Today I went on short walk to seek any insect nearby but didn't find no interesting but heard sounds of young owls which lately I hear after sunset very much around. After I've perceived on old apple tree one but very hard to taking photo. I wait a little and the...