Soaring Together

Two storks flying close together as they leave their feeding area. We saw a total of 12 storks at once in this field in northern Germany.

Perched in a tree

A black redstart checking me out from the safety of a tree.

Will you feed me already?!

This sparrow chick seems to be VERY demanding of mother bird! So demanding that mother bird seems a little bit shocked and scared of her own child. This bird house is hanging on our neighbor's house, about 12 feet away from our kitchen window. It's been a lot of fun watching the feeding lately.

Bumble Bee Landing

The bumble bees have been going crazy over our hollyhocks lately. We have a ton of hollyhocks, and there have been hundreds of bumble bees (and other bees and insects) swarming all over them. It's pretty normal to see two bees sharing one flower.  We even saw two bees mating while hanging off of a flower! This picture is of a bumble bee about to land in one of the hollyhock blossoms.