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you don’t see them often anymore …

I think this kind of beautiful plants should be found in every garden. In Western Europe there are far too many gardens with only grass and paving. “Neat,” is how the people judge about their “garden”. Fortunately I am in possession of a natural garden with lots of colorful plants, fruit…
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ellenbrandwijkphotography

ellenbrandwijkphotography visited us. We chatted about photography and she tried a 600 mm mirror lens on my camera. This was the result …
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the most beautiful natural sunscreen

At old farmhouses in the Netherlands you often see lime trees to block the sunlight … We chose different trees for the same purpose.
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preparations

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birds

If you want to get experience in taking photographs of birds … then you can easily start to practice in your own backyard. A young carrion crow a young common blackbird
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the young tits have flown out …

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a tour through our backyard

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tit nest next to our kitchen window …

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take a look up on your roof, they said …

there would be gulls nesting, they said … they’ll shit on your house … so I climbed on my roof … on the corner of my roof where the seagull is always sitting, I found this … It seems to me a dead gullet chick. Undigested ? … Is the gull that’s…
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a walk through the garden

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life and death in our backyard

The four young blackbirds had flown from the nest and were scattered in our backyard …. of course I took a few pictures …. beautiful young life ! But …. a few hours later one of the young blackbirds was brutally caught and dragged along by a western jackdaw Nature…
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a lot of meat …

one of the best sons-in-law that I could wish for …
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feels like they are my own children …

Do you know that feeling? When you see those little blackbirds grow, you get attached to them …. I’m already worried for the moment they fly out of the nest … as if they were my own children …
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29 degrees Celsius !

Today was like an old fashioned summerday … the blackbirds are growing fast … and the washer was filled with black today !
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a nest with four young blackbirds

in our hedge …