Painted Turtle

aka Chrysemys picta. More:

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Apple blossom

Pied-billed grebe

Pied-billed grebe aka Podilymbus podiceps. The bright colour of the beak for the wedding season. More grebe:

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Great Egret

Great Egret aka Ardea alba is a rare visitor of the Northwest coast. So more pleasant was to meet it.

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Snowy

More snow of the last year:

Snowy day

If we had some fun during the last snowy days, our hummingbirds definitely not.

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Snowgirl

In the past two days, we got plenty of snow, so we built snowgirl to celebrate Valentine’s day.

Fishing, Russian style. For dummies.

Some time back I have helped a friend with writing a story about Russian culture. I wrote a manual on Russian style fishing, and I illustrated it. Of course, it is a joke, but with a good chunk of truth. Recently the story popped up from the . . . → Continue reading Fishing, Russian style. For dummies.

Bathing of a Red Worm

In ocean estuaries of Northwest rivers at low tides, greater yellowlegs can be often seen.

One day we spent about an hour looking for their life.

Yellowlegs actively run on the wet sand and checked it with their bills.

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The promenade of the little green heron

Far-far away, in warm Florida, on the Big Pine Island, on the mangroves branch above the little pond, the little green heron sat. And looked in the water with extreme attention. Because if look somewhere long enough, you can see something interesting.

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