Birds,bugs etc,around us!!

[Albert E]

Thank you Iron Hoarder!!You are all welcome!!!
Here some Southern lapwings,Teru.teru,"Vanellus chilensis" enjoying an exceptionally hot afternoon for late winter,in a pond!!Soon we will have spring weather!!Some swallows started to arrive!!





Thanks for looking!!
Regards:Albert

[Albert E]

Spring will soon be with us!!We are having a hot(30 celsius)weekend ,but a storm is announced for tomorrow,and after that back to the 15 degrees for a few days!!Aniway the first swalows,a few flowers and some green grass is budding!!Some pictures!!













Regards:
Albert

[marcus2]

Evening Albert,my wife would like to know what the first flowers are?

[Albert E]

Hi Marcus!!Those lovely little flowers are from bulbs and called Freesias(according to my wife),they fleuirish early at the end of winter early spring,and go on!!I understand they are South American.
Today's sunset!!





Regards!!
Albert

[marcus2]

Thanks Albert.

[john wings]

jolly pics there Albert;i hope your summer is,as ours hasnt been
regards
jw

[Albert E]

Thank you John!!I hope it comes nicely too!!
Marcus!!I read that Freesias were South American in a huge french Larousse,but today in Internet I find they are from South Africa!!Iridacea family!!Lots of species and varieties!!Here another picture of ours!!



And a site!!
http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantefg/freesalba.htm

Usually ver strong nice scent!!
Regards!!
Albert
PS:We had just a small shower today!!No big storm as announced!!(Luckily!!)

[I D Howe]

Great sunset Albert, can't believe i saw the sunset in Uruguay!

[Albert E]

Thank you!!Today's sunset,after some rain was not so nice,but here it is!!



Regards:
Albert

[Albert E]

This evening after three days of slow and thin rain in the fields where some trees had been felled I got these little birds with the flash,and some fungus on a cow dung.







Regards:
Albert

[Albert E]

Yesterday back to Montevideo,and today for a few hours to Punta del Este (seaside) where we went to see the work in our seaside apartment,still raining most of the time!!(5 days in a row,slowly)I just took some pictures of an old fishing boat,a tug,and a surfer!!Here they go!!(Still winter here)







Regards!!
Albert

[Albert E]

Years ago(over 30) a lady gave my wife this lovely plant,saying it is a Sultana paraguaya,which I am not sure of,nor have seen another elsewhere.We keep it inside in a glass gallery in our Montevideo flat,and it keeps showing her lovely flowers.My wife asked me to take some pictures,and I am sharing them with you too!!















Thanks for looking!!
Albert

[Noddy]

So, we were just away islanding immediately prior to the kids going back to school. Across the way from where we stayed, there is an inlet. At around twilight I saw, out of the corner of my eye, a long sinuous fast moving thing. Scale is difficult there and I still had to put the kids to bed. Soon as this was done, I jumped into a canoe to find out what was going on. I seriously thought that this was Nessie

Drifted about a bit for an hour and the light is starting to go .. then I saw it again right in front of me about 20' long and moving really quickly. Now I know it is Nessie Managed to drift bit closer, and then could see what it really was just as it dipped under a disused jetty - so I sat dead still and let the canoe drift round - and there it was - a troupe of mature otters!! They had been gambolling along in file.

I counted twelve, but there could have been more. They let me get really close before getting a bit barky and I paddled off. They were still there for a while, but the light quickly went

Needless to say, no camera

[Albert E]

What a pitty!!No camera!!!They must have been a magnifficent sight!!Maybe you manage to see them again and hopefully carrying a camera!!
Regards!!
Albert

[Albert E]

A rainbow on the sea!!







Regards:
Albert