A photogenic house sparrow with LOTS of fluff! 🪶 🌿 #switzerland #schweiz

A mute swan youngster has joined the pond. Hope to watch it all the way to its adulthood 🪶 🌿 #birds

Yoga move from a coot plus reflection. That's quite a neck stretch! 🌿 🪶 #birds #waterfowl

No, these are not northern lights (I wish....). Yesterday's nocturnal pink sky over Basel is the result of low-hanging clouds reflecting the local football stadium's horticultural lights. 🌿 #Basel #Switzerland #Schweiz

A crow, rainbow and nut all fitting very nicely together somehow. Photographed 5 minutes ago during a summer shower. 🌿 🪶

I was walking past a bright yellow wall of goldenrod when I saw and photographed this drone fly. Love how it has an alien look about it with those huge compound eyes! 👽 Just look at that face 🌿 #bugsky #insects #summer

Stomach view of the jersey tiger moth. It was sitting on the window showing off all those spots! 🌿 🦋

🌿 🦋 Was very pleased to discover this pretty jersey tiger moth sitting on a leaf in the front yard 📸 #moth #insects #bugsky

🇨🇭Swiss National Day yesterday. Gave me the opportunity to photograph the village fireworks for a colourful albeit rather noisy change! #swissnationalday #bundesfeier #switzerland #schweiz

Saw and photographed one of my crow buddies today. Just look at those white feather bases, on display thanks to the wind ruffling its plumage. Do all crows have this? Crow experts, any insights? 🪶 🌿 #crow #corvids

Carder bees are the cutest with their fluffy orange hairdos. Managed to snap this one after many tries 🌿 🐝 #bugsky #bee #switzerland

🫣 A funny dragonfly peekaboo moment I caught on camera: four-spotted chaser at the pond. 🌿 #dragonflies #insects #nature

A coot sitting on a mighty, bristling nest. Just waiting for the little ones to hatch! 🌿 🪶 #waterfowl #switzerland

I spent a pond-erous afternoon with my camera. One of my favourite shots: this frog sitting earnestly in front of two water lilies. Just check out that upright posture. Lots of attitude! 🐸 🌿 #amphibians #frogs #switzerland

A carder bee (I love the orange hairstyle!) busy at work 🌿 🐝 #bugsky #bee #summer

A perfect beacon (or bee-con): a bumblebee prepares to land in the wonderful crimson depths of a poppy 🌿 🐝 #bugsky #poppy #flowers

Manchmal fehlen einfach die Worte angesichts der brutalen Gewalt der Natur. In Gedanken bei den Einwohnerinnen und Einwohnern von Blatten 💔 #Blatten #Wallis #Schweiz

🌿 I just love the huge, beautiful eyes on this dragonfly. A green-eyed hawker, photographed last week. #bugsky #dragonfly

Finally!🎉

🪶 🌿 If I imitated the posture below, it would be an utter disaster. Don't try heron yoga to get to your armpit. @everyheron.bsky.social #heron #birds #graureiher

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🐸 🌿 Recorded a frog concert today. Very noisy. Lots of bubble-gumming. You'll understand when you watch the clip😀 Turn on the sound! 🎶 #frogs #amphibian #switzerland

When I was not at work or photographing nature in my free time, I was studying during the past months. Last Friday, I received my CAS certificate in Digital Branding at the @fhnw.ch in Olten. Many thanks to the FHNW team and teachers for this journey, I enjoyed being a graduate again! 🎓🎉

The dragonflies are finally here! Four-spotted chaser (Libellula quadrimaculata) at the pond 🌿 #bugsky #insects #dragonfly #libelle #basel

All eight hatched. One 24 hours after the others so it’s only a day old, and busy trying to keep up with its older siblings. And yes it does catch up to them in the water.

Bee and bluebells 🐝 🌿 #insects

Last photo of my heron series. A closer look at that eerie eldritch eye 🪶 🌿 @everyheron.bsky.social #heron #graureiher #switzerland #schweiz

Number 3 in the heron series: another video of the grim grey sentinel fishing mercilessly for prey (and compliments). And a moorhen swims past in the background 🪶 🌿 @everyheron.bsky.social #heron #graureiher #switzerland #schweiz

Next in the heron series! Eerie yellow eyes, grim, focused and ruthless: a heron on the prowl as it hunts for frogs. With success 🪶 🌿 @everyheron.bsky.social #heron #graureiher #switzerland #schweiz

It's nesting time! Photographed this heron flying past with a twig in its beak yesterday afternoon 🌿 🪶 @everyheron.bsky.social More heron photos and a video coming up over the next days!😀 #heron #reiher #switzerland #schweiz

Absolutely not impressed by the power harrow only a few metres away: a stork enjoys the tasty morsels the tractor is bringing to the surface 🌿 🪶 #stork #storch

This wall lizard was "blinking" a lot. I waited for the perfect "blink" and managed to photograph its third eyelid 🌿 🦎 #lizard

More proof that our crows friends are brainiacs! 🧠

Spring has settled in, and many busy pollinators are visiting the cherry blossoms. A nice opportunity for me to photograph bees flying from flower to flower 🌿 🐝 #bugsky #bee #spring

A crested newt swims up to the water surface for a breath of fresh air 🌿 #herps #newt

Sailing away confidently on a petal along the pond: an adventurous water skeeter 🌿 #insects #bugsky

Finally! My froggy friends are back! Here's a really chunky one I photographed this afternoon 🐸 🌿 #switzerland #schweiz

This spider (a crab spider?) is enjoying spring and performing a headstand among the petals and stamens 🌿 @britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #spidersky

Got lucky - kestrel sighting! 🌿 🪶 #switzerland #birds

Egyptian goose babies with a parent 🪶 🌿

This is a portrait shot of one of my Phidippus tyrrelli females from a few years ago. They are a widespread species in the western U.S. found at higher altitudes. 🌿 🕷️ #invert #salticidae

Some more floof and fluff from the Egyptian geese chicks 🪶 🌿 #switzerland #birds

These four cute bundles of fluff are Egyptian goose babies, standing near one of their parents and checking out the pond 🪶 🌿

Egyptian goose standing proudly and haughtily on the neighbour's roof. These birds have a lot of attitude 🪶 🌿 #birds #vogel #switzerland

Spring is definitely here! This mining bee from the Andrena family is very busy collecting pollen from a goat willow 🐝 🌿 #switzerland #bees

Morgestraich Basel

One of the first messengers of spring hereabouts: wall lizard 🦎 🌿 #switzerland #schweiz

Spring is almost here! A bee working busily away in a crocus 🌿 #bugsky

Little Robin redbreast searches the pear tree for rivals and munches on nuts, seeds, and mealworm 🐛🥜 #Robin #Robinredbreast #gardenbirds #birds #gardenwildlife #nature

Lots of attitude from this Egyptian goose as it stares into the camera 🪶 🌿 #birds #switzerland #schweiz