Category: Animals

Photographs showing animals, birds, fish, insects etc either living or dead

Birds on snowy steps

Birds on snowy steps

A jackdaw struts and a young seagull mews on the snowy steps down to an angled bastion on Gothenburg’s moat canal. … Continue readingBirds on snowy steps

A Cheshire Cat

A Cheshire Cat?

I don’t know whether this is really a Cheshire Cat – it’s clearly not smiling – but it is all head and no body in a very unexpected place high up on a wall at Tredje Långgatan. … Continue readingA Cheshire Cat?

Grebe

Grebe on Möndalsån

Above: Looks like a Slavonian grebe – Podiceps auritus – swimming alone in the rain on Möndalsån, the stream that runs north through Mölndal to Gothenburg.
Below: The same bird, closer, lighter but (even more) out of focus. … Continue readingGrebe on Möndalsån

Bandana dog

Bandana dog

Bandana dog: I’m guessing the bandana is more of a fashion statement than protection from the rain, but this dog doesn’t seem under the weather even so. … Continue readingBandana dog

At the riding school

Riding school

[dot_recommends] Girls on horseback – photo taken during riding paractice in a paddock at Skatås. gbg365

Dappled grey

Dappled grey

A dappled grey horse, conscious of its beautiful curling eyelashes and fly-away blond mane, poses for a portrait in a field near the Delsjö junction on the very edge of the city. … Continue readingDappled grey

Dog trial - Aliz watching

Dog trials – Aliz watching

My friend Lena took her a border collie Aliz to see these dog trials at Delsjö on Saturday. I went along. Our canine was only moderately interested, but I caught this photo of Aliz watching.

It was a dull day. … Continue readingDog trials – Aliz watching