Elämää maalla ... Life in the country

Koirablogiani en kykene edelleenkään päivittämään enkä pahemmin katsomaankaan kun siellä on niitä Lucan kuvia joten tulkoon tänne luontoblogiini toistaiseksi muiden kuvien ohessa Ljubankin kuvat. Viikonloput maalla ovat terapeuttisia kun saa kaivella multaa kunnes sänkyyn kaatuu ja ihastella maaseudun kauneutta ja elämää.

My doggy blog is still of the limits for me. I cannot yet quite even look at it as there are so many pictures of Luca there. Hence I will post photos of Ljuba in my nature blog for now alongside with other pictures. The weekends in the country are very therapeutic when one can dig in the soil till one drops in bed and enjoy the beauty of the countryside and the life within.


Rantaniityn punkkimagneetti ... The seaside meadow tick collector


Mitä? Onks tääl punkkeja? ... What? Are there ticks here?


Näin minä pesen ne itsestäni pois ... I'll wash them away from myself like this


Ljuban mökkinaapuri Saku, joka aina kuolaa reippaasti Ljuban nähtyään. Ljubassa on sitä jotain mikä saa pojat kuolaamaan ... Ljuba's cottage neighbour Saku, who always drools heavily at the sight of her. She's got that something to make the boys drool.


Vasikat kevätlaitumella ... Calfs on spring pastures


Utelias ... Inquisitive


Laiturin lokit (kävis bändinkin nimeksi ja yhtä äänekkäitä olivat) ... The board walk gulls (could be the name of a rock group too and they were just as noisy)


Tämä pikkuinen oli huomattavan hiljaisempaa sorttia ... This little one was of a lot more quiet nature


Luuli kai kyyhky olevansa hyvinkin piilossa kun ei mihkään liikkunut ... This pigeon must have thought that it was well hidden and would not budge from the spot


Tämä värikäs harakka ei ruohomättään maastoutumissuojaan niinkään uskonut ... The colourful magpie had no such confidence in the camouflage quality of a tuft of grass


Nokikana halusi kai vain poseerata ... The coot possibly just wanted to pose


Maaseudun maisemia ... Countryside landscapes


Maalla ... On land


Rannalla ... By the shore line


Merellä ... Over the sea


Uusia lehtiä ... New leaves




Ikivihreä vanhus ... Evergreen oldie


Vesilisko lammessa ... A newt in the pond


Toinen lammen asukki ... Another pond dweller


Liljakukko, joka pääsi kuvaan ja kuoli. Näitä kun emme lijoihimme halua. ... A lily beetle that had its picture taken and then died. These we do not want eating up our lilies.


Murkut vanhassa kannossa ... Ants in an old tree stump


Missäs olet ukko koko illan luuhannut kun keon suursiivous on meneillään?! ... And where have you husband been hiding all evening when we have the spring clean of the ant hill?!


Perhosten mukana liihotellut tietenkin ... Been fluttering about with the butterflies no doubt


Jos rouva muurahainen ottais vähän rennommin niinkuin me päiväperhot niin elämäkin sujuis kuin siivillä ... If Mrs ant would take things a bit lighter like us butterflies her life too would just fly along

Niinhän se on meillä ihmisilläkin. Toiset ovat arjen puurtajia ja toiset liitelevät kepeästi paikasta toiseen. ... This how it is with us humans too. Some of us are hard workers while others flutter about from one place to another.

Mökki detaljeja ... Cottage details

Uutta kasvua ... New growth






Kummajaisia ... Alien things





Pisaratimantti ... Droplet diamond



Hyönteisiä ... Insects





Matelijoita ... Cold blooded creatures







Pesäntekopuuhia ... Nest building





Kurki ... Crane



Lähinaapureita ... Close neighbours



Herkkuja ... Delicacies



Vesiä ... Waters


Hiilivuori ... Coal mountain


Puutarhalammen kulma ... A corner of the garden pond

Maaseutua ... Countryside





Iloisia koiria ... Happy dogs





Hiirenkorvia ... New leaves



Taivasta ja puuluuranko ... The sky and a tree skeleton

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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