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Spring diary: Part 1 2008-04-14 05:14:45 Past weekend was just wonderful! Weather was brilliant and thus I spent two days walking in the park making photos of flowers and birds and mushrooms and insects and many-many other things and creatures. I will post them here during this week for there is at least a dozen of shots I'd like to share. I think I'll begin with first leaves.Green leaves! And purple leaves!You probably cannot imagine Read more:Spring
Shooting buds 2008-04-11 00:40:41 The most wonderful thing about miracles is that sometimes they happen.
I don't know what did G. K. Chesterton really mean saying it, but this quote perfectly applies to the gentle spring miracle of buds' shoot. And although I can't wait seing the park dressed in summer greenery all over, these few days of nature reburth fill me with delight and willingness to take my camera whenever I go.
Snowfungi 2008-04-11 00:36:20 These are my pride really! I believe it was the end of November 2007 when I found perfectly fresh (and perfectly tasty also!) mushrooms in the park. They grew like a set of snowdrops (or should I call them snowfungi?) on some fallen tree surrounded by grass - still green, covered with snow flakes which fell in the night. Facinating I think.
Weeeekend in the park 2008-04-08 12:05:41 The ducks from the previous post are followed by the moose, which I met this Saturday in the park. You can imagine my excitement for it was the first time ever when I have seen the moose in the living environment. The moose looked very young and it was remarkably calm untill some wild dogs tried to attack it. The moose tried to kick them with its hind hoofs several times which made the dogs
A piece of sun 2008-04-08 02:59:27 It is a cloudy day today, and I can't help adding here some small piece
of sun which I caught in my lens last weekend. A foalfoot. The first flower that appeared in the park this spring.
Spring is on it's way 2008-04-04 02:37:03 Here we go! Above are some pics I made this spring.
Ducks. Roody shelducks to be more specific. I decided to start with posting these creatures. Why? Obviously because they are curious, they are cute and they are awesome. I guess these reasons are quite enough. The ducks dwell on a pond glade, which is still frozen and covered with snow, and seem to enjoy it as well as being filmed. Read more:Spring
Hello world! 2008-03-27 12:49:25 Well now, I've finally decided to blog some here. Having used to post some personal things in my previous blogs I am not going to continue this tradition anymore. Instead I will post my creos, some awesome stuff found in the internet and reviews on whatever I find interesting or useful.
Oh and still there are lots of cockroaches in my mind so.. it's gonna be fun. Read more:Hello
, Hello world
Spring diary 2: Monster inside 2008-04-15 12:11:17 I actually wanted to post some flowers today. But I just can't help sharing pics of these grey guys to you. I noticed them swimming in the pond and they won my heart right away. I resisted the temptation of catching some big one and kissing it though - thanks to my Beloved standing nearby. Besides, who knows for sure, if there is a prince or a monster inside
. The latter one would be fine, but Read more:Spring
, Monster
Spring diary 3: It's flowerday! 2008-04-17 03:10:16 I don't know why, but I just love foalfoots. They look quite simple singly, but when there is a whole field covered with a yellow carpet...
Corydalis: a beautiful finding right in the beginning of my journey to the park.What was NOT a nice finding at all is a bouquet of coridalises, which someone picked and then threw on the ground. I can understand why people gather flowers to bring them Read more:Spring
Good morning is good! 2008-04-21 02:01:24 Now that may sound funny but I seem to begin to doubt the fact that Monday morning is never good. That was really nice to be waken up by the person Belowed after a wonderful weekend, to have some breakfast, to get to the office, have one more breakfast and finally get sitted at a workplace to check some mail and to visit some of my favorite blogs here. I know, I know it's a disaster to have me as
Mushroom! Mushroom! 2008-04-23 05:29:14 As I said in my previous post, the spring mushroom season has finaly begun. Ta-da-da-dah! Let me show what I've found so far:
Sarcoscyphae coccineae
These were So bright that it was just impossible to miss them. According to the catalogue, these mushrooms appeared to be quite edible so I picked a dozen to have them cooked.
Gyromitra gigas or so-called Saddle fungi
This brain-looking shape make Read more:Mushroom
Fungi evolution 2008-04-28 13:57:16 As I have promised earlier, more mushrooms to come here! Today I would like to make some kind of a short history log.
This story begins with several tiny mushrooms I found two weeks ago growing on a fallen tree. I was not sure what kind of mushrooms are these. They are too soft for being Laetiporus (a polypore), but look and smell different from 'usual' mushrooms. Thus I left them grow and
Snake sssnarling 2008-04-27 11:02:00 I was walking in the park capturing some flowers, trying to film some bird. Yes, some little, calm birdie which will NOT fly away when I am getting ready my camera, thinking: it have sat still in the grass for 5 minutes already and sure will be glad to posture some for me.
Then - a sudden move in the grass. And WOW! A snake! A grass snake to be more precise (of Natrix natrix species). A long one Read more:Snake
The life of moving fungi 2008-05-02 11:56:29 Today I am going to tell you about some wonderful creatures: slime molds (Myxomycetes). The most unique thing about them is that they move! In the beginning they are just amoeba-like cells, which eat some delicious bacteria in order to grow into plazmodia. They usually grow inside the cracks of rotten stubs, under tree roots and fallen leaves and tend to move to darker and wetter places. One can
Sad news / Good news 2008-05-04 04:52:10 Earlier in Fungi Evolution post I wrote about my weekly examination of these strange-looking shrooms. Sad news is - I visited them this weekend again and found most of the creatures knocked down by some stupid russian drunkard. It is like some kind of a sport for locals here: come to the park with some cheap vodka, drink it, then smash empty bottles, and leave as much garbage and destruction as
Dragon queen 2008-05-10 00:43:14 One Saturday morning a small adventurous lizard decided to explore an old railroad. It's trip could have lasted for miles when we found it.
We took it, made several photos and then then set it free. Perhaps some day it'll become a lizard photo-model super-star..
Then it will star in an epic movie as a queen of the omni-powerful dragon race that destroyed the human world, enslaved people and built Read more:Dragon
Jays on guard! 2008-05-13 11:54:00 For all the Spring I tried to capture some bird. I made pictures of snake and moose and frogs and lots of other fauna and flora. Finally: a Jay. One of my favorite ones and one of the biggest birds here. I often see Jays chasing hooded crows to prevent them destroying other birds' nests. Jays gather in small groups of 2-4 units and attack screeching and trying to rip out crow's feathers. A good
Fungi growth on insects 2008-05-16 00:46:17 This is not my video but it is about Fungi! Fungi which grow on insects. I added this video to my bookmarks long ago and forgot it. Today I found it again and would like to share it with you. This Yuggot is one of those things really worth watching!!
Cockchafers UNDEAD 2008-05-21 05:10:38 Here comes the end of yesterday's story 'May bugs genocide'. In the previous series of photos we have found a bunch of may bugs bodies, killed by a starling in cold blood. However, after watching the above short video you will witness an even more horrible ending. After having been half-eaten, cockchafers became zombies! Notice how they move their legs and niggerheads! These cockchafers seek
May bugs genocide 2008-05-20 12:03:20 In the morning when the sun was shining so bright and the wind was blowing so peacefully I decided to have a walk in the park with Ginger Cat. We have found a quite place and played badminton for a while, then decided to have some rest..And a dreadful picture appeared before our eyes: Bodies of dead may bugs, not even bodies but only their heads and shards laying all over the place. There should
Shellduck vs Mallards 2008-05-20 00:50:49 A mating season is over here and ducks have already split into couples.
Last weekend I and my Belowed walked around a pond as we usually do and watched a pair of mallards swimming.
Suddenly a ruddy shelduck appeared swimming in the most strangest way heading to the couple of mallards. We used to watch it several times earlier and it was always single. Perhaps it was unlucky to find a mate or
Fungi, squirrels and no camera 2008-05-24 03:46:29 This morning was full of impressions and I am a little bit sad that I was too lazy to take my camera with me. It's raining today. Most of the ducks hide in some warm and dry places. However, there are lots of squirrels in the park, eating nuts from the birdfeeders. Some birds are there too but not so much as usually.
We watched squirrels and tried to feed them some peanuts. Suddenly some dog
Ladybird WANTED dead or alive 2008-05-23 12:06:06 This is the first ladybug I saw this spring and it tried to attack my camera. Seriously. All I wanted is to make some macro pics and suddenly it stood on it's hindfeet knocking my camera with its head. Horrible creature. I am sure this ladybird has lots of dirty secrets and that's why it prefers to have its face unknown. However here you may see it's true portrait that I made despite all
It's Duckday today! 2008-05-25 23:53:23 This is the first musical video I've made in my life! It's about ducks. And ducklings!
More pics of ducks:
A pair of Shellducks now has ducklings! Mother shellduck swimms in the pond with kids while father shellduck watches around keeping the place safe from intruders. Mallards have baby ducklings too although not as many as shellducks have.
These is some new kind of ducks I've never seen
Kitty-kitty on a tree 2008-05-31 10:44:16 A cats' wail. Suddenly from nowhere. I searched the whole yard before I found the source of terrible meowing: two cats on a tree.
The third one - a female under the tree watches desperately as one male cat chased the other one untill they found themselves on top branches. I ran home for my camera.
And unfortunatelly when I returned, the screaming was ower and winner was climbing off the tree
Violent Relaxation 2008-06-02 10:59:04 My new video with ducklings! The soundtrack makes the video a little bit weird perhaps.. it's Total Eclipse' '51 Pegasus'. Enjoy! Read more:Relaxation
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