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Male black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) with insects perching on a stick.

green dragonfly close up. Macro shots nature scene dragonfly. green dragonfly in the nature habitat. Calopteryx splendens male

Bearded reedling, Panurus biarmicus. The male bird sits on a reed stalk against the sky

$Tot 30-39mm, Ab 25-32mm, HW 19-23mm.\nOur most delicate Lestes, which is normally easily separated by its statue and coloration, although some Iberian populations recall L. barbarous.\nHabitat: A wide variety of seasonally dry shallow and reedy waters in the south, becoming more critical in the north-west, where it is most abundant in heath and bog lakes with peat moss (Sphagnum) and rushes (Juncus).\nFlight Season: Northern populations mostly emerge in July, flying into November.\nDistribution: Widespread in Europe, although seldom the dominant Lestes species. Distribution recall L. barbarous, and also tends to wander like that species, though rarely in similarly great numbers.\n\nThis Species is to be seen in the describe Habitats, but not as common as L. sponsa in the Netherlands.$

A Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) singing in a bush at the San Jacinto Wildlife Area in Riverside County, Southern California. The Northern Mockingbird is a member of a small New World family (Mimidae) of about 30 species, including other mockingbirds, thrashers, catbirds, and tremblers. This bird is common and widespread and ranges from the mid United States to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico. As the scientific name implies (Mimus polyglottos= “many-tongued mimic”), the Northern Mockingbird is an extremely accomplished repeater of practically any sound that it hears, whether it be another bird or mechanical noises.

Western Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) walking in grass with hoarfrost. This is an extremely rare species in The Netherlands, the second ever

Dragon-fly, view from above, blue - black, big, sitting on a rock, wings spreaded out, USA, Kenai Peninsula

A closeup shot of a male Eurasian blackcap perched on a branch. Sylvia atricapilla.

$Field characters: Tot 56-64mm, Ab 43-54mm, Hw 37-42mm. Distinctly smaller than most Aeshna species.\n\nThe commonest small hawker. Numerous in much of our area, and although it can be on the wing during most months in the Mediterranean, further north it is especially associated with late summer and autumn, when it may appear in massive migrations. It is usually identified by its size, relative dull colours and the diagnostic yellow \$

Dunnock foraging for food, winter. Prunella modularis.

Adult Firefly Beetle of the Family Lampyridae

Amphilophus Labiatus red devil and Astronotus ocellatus

$Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) adult female drinking from pond\n\nEccles-on-Sea, Norfolk, UK. April$

$Short perennial, the stem with several brown sheaths at the base. Leaves oblong, keeled, shiny-green, the upper leaves smaller and bract-like. Bracts membranous, shorter than the ovary. Flowers greenish-yellow, often with reddish margins and streaks, borne in a slender spike, often many-flowered, each flower manikin-like, with the sepals and petals forming a close hood; lip 12-15mm, pendent, the lateral lobes forming short, narrow ‘arms’ and the central lobe divided into narrow legs; spurless.\nHabitat: Grassland, field boundaries, abandoned quarries, banks and open scrub, rarely along woodland margins, on calcareous soils, to 1500m.\nFlowering Season: May-June.\nDistribution: S & SE Britain, Belgium, Holland, France and Germany.\n\nThis Picture is made during a long weekend in the Eifel (Germany) in June 2019.$