This spring it was first dry and windy, which was good for the roads. Now it has been raining a bit more, which is good for the nature and growth. It is also good for the mosquitoes... Anyway there is a lot of water in the ditches, and in that water something is crawling... Yes, frogs of course, but something else, too...
It is a cold, windy and sunny morning. And even so there are mosquitoes... and yes, there is one! These animals usually move in the night and they are rare so I'm content to see one... It is about seven or eight cm long with delicate fingers. it is kind of floating on the surface...
and then it is gone! It disappears under a rotten leaf in the mud... but another comes out of hiding and floats near the bottom... They are newts! Not lizards but amphibians!
On the surface the water striders skate with fluid ease...
and in the bottom mud these funny fellows move hiding under their covering armour of little leaves and other stuff.
Dragonflies spend their 'youth' under water in this kind of camouflage but I think these are a bit small for dragonflies... some relative perhaps... In the picture underneath one is grabbing the grass and can be seen sideways.
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Quite a spider! The other one dived and was gone! This one was a calm customer and didn't flinch when the lens came near. Some three cm from one leg to another! Can you find it in the pic below? Yes, it is there... in the middle!
And then back to the field and wind - no mosquitoes!! The dandelion has a visitor...
My dog has an instinct to hunt...
And the buttercups are rissing their heads, opening yellow eyes...
This, too, has a visitor...
A bumblebee ravishes the campion
This peacock butterfly has quite probably spent the winter as an adult - so worn and ragged are it's wings...
What can this ladybird find in this old and properly dry rose hip?
They come in different colors and different sizes... and even doubles...
And this is me after the walk...
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