Category: Animals

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

Slätta duck standing - morning light

Early morning duck

In early morning light, a duck standing on a submerged branch or root, almost in silhouette, reflected in the water of Slätta damm. After yesterday’s concrete duck … … Continue readingEarly morning duck

Stinging jellyfish

Stinging jellyfish

Summer plague: Red stinging jelly fish – Lion’s Mane Jellyfish – (röd brännmanet – Cyanea capillata) in the harbour off Hönö Klåva. … Continue readingStinging jellyfish

Hunting tern

Hunting tern

This tern was hunting over the shallow water of an inlet on Styrsö yesterday. I watched it for some time, trying to take a photograph. It was dogged by a seagull that was clearly just waiting for the opportunity to snatch away whatever the tern might catch. Then the tern got fed up and turned on the gull. … Continue readingHunting tern

The day's catch

The day’s catch

The day’s catch: Fish on ice in one of the display cabinets of Feskekôrka.
The day’s catch captured: The red shirted girls and their trainer (from Malmö) are in Gothenburg to take part in the Partille Handball Cup. … Continue readingThe day’s catch

City hare

City hare

The mountain hare’s Latin name is Lepus timidus, but there was nothing timid about this one I photographed on my way home yesterday, calmly having its evening meal by the tram tracks at Wieselgrensplatsen. In Swedish this is a skogshare – a forest hare – but I think it’s misnamed. Clearly this one is a city hare! … Continue readingCity hare

Ducklings

Ducklings

Three ducklings from a clutch of at least five exploring the lilly pads on Slätta damm yesterday morning. … Continue readingDucklings

Patience

Patience in a pug

This pug was waiting with great patience for his owner at the foot of a tree on Östra Hamngatan. Photogenic, he fastened on several other photographs from the Göteborg Photo Walk, but I think I’m the only one who caught this expression. … Continue readingPatience in a pug