The Changing Seasons – August/September 2018

  It´s time again for the wonderful challenge The Changing Seasons hosted by my dear friend Su from Zimmerbitch! Since I´ve missed out on August I thought I´d start with a few pics that I made then from the flowers on my balcony which were in full bloom and regularly visited from all sorts of bees, feasting on

Navy … eh, Baby Seals

  In late february some seals start having their pups, like the harp seal/saddleback seal which is a species of earless seals native to the northernmost Atlantic Ocean. It´s sientific name – Pagophilus groenlandicus – means “Ice-lover from Greenland”. All female seals have to come back to land, or in this case pack ice, to

Animals

      A pair of gerbils in a coconut         gerbil   gerbils                                                                   guinea pigs    In the Mood for Beatrix Potter