Oh deer what ears and scales on skins or tails like fins and heads like pins!

Eläinvauvoja osa II ... Animal babies part II

Joutsen perhe ... The swan family


Ootteko kaikki koossa? ... Are you all assembled?


Katsokaapas kun mamma näyttää miten joutsen-kävellään ... Look and learn as mommy shows how to do the swan walk


Hei älkää tönikö! ... Hey stop pushing!


Mamman ja papan välissä on turvallista ... Between mommy and daddy is safe to be.

Pikavisiitti/eläinvauvoja osa I ... French visit/animal babies part I

En ole tekemässä mitään suurempaa paluuta blogimaailmaan mutta ajattelinpa julkaista muutamia söpöjä kuvia luonnon lastentarhasta kuitenkin.

Not planning any kind of major comeback to the blog world yet but thought I would publisize a few cute pictures from nature's cresh anyway.

Pieni rusakkovauva ... A little brown hare baby


Mmmm kuinka hyvälle kukat tuoksuukin .... Mmmm how nice the flowers smell


Ruohonkorsi suupielessä ... Grass straw in the corner of the mouth


Kukkatutti pupunen ... Flower dummy bunny


Olen piilossa, luulen ... I am hidden, I think

Elämä ympärillämme ... The life around us

Merirokkoja veden rajassa ... Barnacles at the waters edge


Vesimittarit ovat heränneet ... The pond skaters have woken up


Pelästytin rusakon kävellessäni ja hölmö otus alkoi juosta lähes kohtisuoraan minuun päin.
I startled up a hare on my walks and the silly thing started to run nearly straight at me.


Tässä näkyy että sen toinen korva oli pahasti halki. Mietin mikähän trauma jänistä on kohdannut. Ehkäpä koira tai kettu.
Here you can see that one of his ears was split in half. I wonder what trauma he had been subjected to. Perhaps a dog or a fox.


Räkättirastas puussa ... A field fare in a tree


Nuoret joutsenet lentävät siistissä rivissä rannan tuntumassa.
Young swans flying in a tidy row along the shore line.


Tässä onkin tutumpi hahmo tullut ihmettelemään mitä jännää se mamsi sieltä lammikosta löytää.
Here we have a more familiar figure come to see what mommy thinks is so interesting in that pond.

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My World Tuesday - Nature parade

This week I'll not concentrate on architecture as there is just so much happening in nature that it deserves a presentation. A lot of photos are not of any beauty value as they are taken just so far away but nevertheless I want to record what I have seen and when as the spring moves forward so fast.


Here on a plowed farmer's field the Great Snipes had arrived and were feeding around a puddle of melted snow


In the same field were also many Lapwings that have been quite rare in resent years due to the ditches from fields dissapearing as they all seem to be more and more drained underground and so they have no nesting sites.


The Pied Wagtails had arrived already at Easter.


A load of Canada Geese that have stopped to feed on another field


Also the deer come more out in the open during the last of the daylight. This is a male Whitetail Deer. Would that be buck?


Here we have a female or is it a hind?


The Cormorants have arrived too.


As have the Great Crested Grebes


This is two flying male Goldeneye ducks looking for females.


Here we have a pair of Goosanders landing on water.


A pair of Mute Swans has established the shore where our summer cottage is as their territory after a lot of flapping and posing to a rival pair.


These Goosanders and Goldeneyes had already paired up and are planning to nest just outside the water's edge at our cottage too.

We have these reedbeds there so we always get a lot of nesting seabirds around our area. Having said that, just like many smaller birds, Goldeneyes often nest in hollow trees. We have such a tree in our yard. It's a very tall pine and was originally hollowed out by a Woodpecker but now Goldeneyes have used it for many years and squirrels use it as a winter nest too cleaning out all the down etc. left by the birds when autumn comes.


A lot of flying about is happening at the moment. Here is some Mallard ducks in flight


Here we have two male and one parcially showing female Eider.


In the tree a Hooded Crow shelters from the cold wind while the Seagull embraces it.


The Gulls kept doing a lot of aerial acrobatics.


As you can see the bay where our cottage lies was still parcially frozen in the middle last weekend. That yellow house is not our cottage but on the opposite side from our shoreline.

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Country walks part II

I feel like lingering on in my little personal paradise island for a bit still. The summer cottage is on an island but reachable by car all year round as the island of Noto is separated from the mainland only by a narrow channel and there's a bridge going over it. Okay there's a lot of cottages there so it's by no means my personal space apart from the plot the cottage is on, which goes all the way down to the water's edge.

This time I want to present mainly some of the tree life on that island.


Silver branches


Huggingly weird tree trunk


A giant burl on a birch tree


Interesting root. Like a woman's buttocks.


Roots of a fallen tree


Mossy roots creeping over the forest floor


Roots in a brook. Or perhaps dinosaur feet?


The leaf buds of a wild rose


Coltsfoot in the grass. Flowers within the flower.


Cattail that has dispersed nearly all of its millions of seeds


A cute tree dweller that has lost a big part of its grey winter coat. Soon it'll be all red.


A little imsy wimsy spider running on a stick


This is my older brother, who also came to the cottage for easter as his wife was in Japan on business. We don't live close and he's a very busy working architect so it was really nice to see him. We're so proud of him.

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