Wednesday, 14 July 2010

Wild weeds ....








When nothing moves around ...
those long and lazy evenings















before the mosquitos start their party time ...














the last rays of sun play on little weeds..



















it's time  of relax ....














time to listen to the birds before sleep ...




















it 's time to walk to the road just waiting for the unexpected bird ..















But it happens only when I walk without binoculars or camera with me ...
Never the opposite :))















But weeds are always there ...looking at the sky ...and the sky looks at them ...















before dark comes once again..I took those photos just for fun )))

Tuesday, 13 July 2010

Living in the fields



A photo is a thousand words ...Better no to try to describe ...or to tell you stories about how my family got this little house and what happened 32 years before, when a strong earthquacke hit Thessaloniki and we had to live outside for several months ...In any case this area in fact was cultivated land of cereals for long ...later in some fields was built summer houses ...Our little property is only 10X10 m ...












In the east there is a nice house with a great garden, the only neighbour who lives there during all the year. North east there is a long field with corns.














Northwest another field just now with destroyed wheat (maybe from a heavy rain). Here an attempt to harvest it but failed...















South is just uncultivated land with a lot of scattered trees most of them olive and almond trees ...















The private road that leads to the house around 100 m long,  cross this uncultivated land from one side, while on the other side there is a nice olive groove ...













There are a lot of habitats for birds to breed and live around ...Unfortunatelly I have never visited this area in other seasons ..so I don't know what species live all the year or stay during the winter around ...
But every year the same birds nest into our little property and around, mostly in the olive groove







I'm not a photographer and with a simple power shot camera it is difficult to take photos of little birds ...but I tried ...There are so many wires and cables around and they love to prerch on them ...The first 10 days I have seen or heard 23 species ..while two more is still unindentified ...11 of them was shot by me at last ...Enjoy ...










The beach isn't too away but for this you need to wait a little ...I can't do all together ...:))

More tomorrow !!!!

Friday, 2 July 2010

Hello friends,
I think it is time to tell GOOD BYE for summer ...


It's time for me to take the ancient roads to the shores of Thermaikos Gulf.


It's time for my yearly communication with the sea and waves


In the desert of fields still my friends will be there ... the Hoopoes, the Red backed Shrikes...the Blackbirds, the different species of swallows, martins and swifts and the gulls......And who knows ...maybe a Greater Flamingo or a flock of Collared Pratincols will fly over my head ...or maybe a Sparrowhawk or a Hobby will make an appearance ...


I will watch the olives increasing in size day by day ..I will watch the without stopping movements of ants opening new roads around the old house ...


I will miss the cams ...i will miss all of you ...my friends in Boma and Facebook


I hope you all have a great happy summer ...






and 15 August will come soon ...and I will be back ...and maybe I will continoue to watch and post pics at this blog ...Until then you can scroll down at the previous pages and have a look at some of the 20.000 pics I have posted until now )) ...Just click at the 'older posts' at the bottom of this page








and maybe I will publish here one or two posts with my news from the fields and some photos ...it depends on what I can do with a telephone line ...






Happy Summer






Καλο Καλοκαίρι !!

Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Nyala bull

Africam, Elephant plains cam, 





Nyala bulls ..

Africam, Elephant plains cam, 


To the 2d,3d,4th picture ...display behaviour










Burchell's Coucal

Africam, Elephant plains cam, 












Burchell's starling

Africam, Elephant plains cam,


Sunset and Impala

Africam, Nkorho pan cam, 



Grey Heron -Ardea cinerea

Wildearth TV, 
froglegs for dinner ))








Hippo island with Hamekop on it )))

Wildearth TV, 



Giraffe

Wildearth TV, 







Young Giraffe

Wildearth TV,