First visitors to this new house design. Most visits are to the tubes. Only a view to the wood block. At first, these visits seemed like scouting because the time duration in the hole was short. After a few days, the stay was 3-4 min inside the holes. Bee always backs out to leave. I often do photo stacking of bee flights with honey hives. Honey bees tend to approach with a tobacco pipe shape. They swoop down, then up. These bees so far seem to have a "s" with a pan across. Maybe this is a scan of the vertical terrain?
Giovane ed imbeccata con codirosso.
Youn an parental care by common redstart
INCRDIBLE: there was two young redstart! Cuckoo with brothers!
Dormono tutte le sere attaccate agli steli del geranio con l'apparato boccale.
Il rito del rientro serale è sempre molto piacevole da osservare (vedi https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/17011700): gli animali già posati, all'avvicinarsi di un altro individuo in volo, alzano le zampe dal lato dal quale il ritardatario sta ronzando.
L'estate 1997 è il 2° anno di presenza di questi animali.
Rimaste in zona finché nel cortile è stata presente una Acacia di Costantinopoli (Albizia julibrissin), quando alcuni anni dopo venne abbattuta (era malata), sparirono.
In old bunker maintained as a hibernation roost
Look how the wasp uses its mandibles to grab the cricket by the antennae to drag it along (nicely visible on 3rd picture)
A stoat attacking a rabbit, white belly from chin to tail, black tip to the tail and a light brown fur coat, no fear of me as it attacked the rabbit by me feet for a full minute plus
In photos 1 to 3, the wasp has pollen on its legs and abdomen as if it's had a struggle with a pollen-covered victim or on a flower head. In photo 4, the abdomen of a bee is seen disappearing down the wasp hole - presumably being dragged. In photo 9, a (dead?) bee is lying on the ground.
Is it a fish? Is it a slug? Is it a fishy anemone? I do not have a clue what this is!
It is about 30mm long and there were a few of them in the sand - outgoing tide nearly on the turn. Most were buried and only the "fan fin" was showing.
Resting on the wet sand, when the sand collapsed it arched it's face upwards (2nd and third photos) and seem to spawn capsule from somewhere - there are 2 floating in the 4th pic.
Totally hypnotic, by the time my sister-in-law and I carried on the brother had walked 2kms away from us!
Aromia moschata (Linnaeus, 1758) on Betula sp.
Ph. Claudio Peterlongo