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“Photos: Nature” subsection
Nature photos:
Plants
Tree bark, a little tree sucker, sunrays through poplars, more sunrays, green leaves rimmed with white, a Romanesco cauliflower.
The Ardennes wood (1 - 2 - 3 - 4), white flowers.
The first buds against the blue sky, a blanket of fog. Teasels on the sea shore, lagurus ovatus in the sun, a vegetal wall. Montjuïc hill gardens and palm tree. An unwinding fern. An orange lichen. A red mushroom. Worm tracks on a tree trunk. Spring grass in the sun. Shrubs and a pink rose caught by the frost. A maze-like slice of red cabbage.
Misty morning roses.
Apple tree buds and flowers, and their pollen tree. White flowers in a tree, quince tree bloom. Primroses, heather, dandelion seeds, flowering rosemary, narcissus, gorse, berberis, pink flowers (1 - 2), a daffodil, apple tree buds and flowers, small white flowers, bud, muscari, star magnolia, a cow-parsnip unfolding, star-shaped flowers, a succulent with flower, a blooming rose and another one after the rain.
Spring flowers: currant, pear tree, flower carpet and daffodils.
A flowering echeveria, with small plants growing and a detail of the flowers. A pink rose, small pink flowers, echeverias and polygala in bloom.
On the cliffs, a teasel, a centaurea jacea, a sheep’s bit. Two other teasels, quaking grass, a nightshade flower, a blue flower and pink flowers.
In a garden, fuchsia, gaura, autumn sage and chrysanthemum flowers.
Flowers under a late spring snow. Flowers on the cliffs (1 - 2). Blue hydrangeas. A bee on a pink flower, a red flower.
Birds
Two mallard ducks and ducklings. A swan, inquisitive, spreading its wings. Fluffy chicken, a seagull, a cormorant, a european shag. A black-headed gull and footprints in the sand. A grey heron. A meadow pipit. A robin. A herring gull in flight and a close-up of another one, a gentoo penguin. A european shag (1 - 2 - 3). A tern, a herring gull turning its back, a young great black-backed gull, two adult great black-backed gulls, some sanderlings, looking for food, with turnstones and an egret. The waders at high tide and the sanderlings in flight. Young swallows at feeding time. Two numbered parrots. Two seagulls seen from underwater. Two common moorhen chicks on a branch. An egret among green seaweed, red-billed choughs on a cliff. A parisian sparrow. A blue tit on a grease ball. Brent geese in shallow water.
At the manger: blue tits (1 - 2 - 3), a robin, greenfinches and sparrows, a starling and a sparrow.
Mammals
A black cat, a red panda, two yin-yang cats, common seals (1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7). Dolphins (1 - 2), a grey seal, a grey squirrel.
Fish & sea creatures
Goldfishes: white and yellow, red, white and black. In Océanopolis: gilt heads, a john dory, a sea robin, bullhead sharks (1 - 2), a red lionfish, tropical fish, a porcupine fish and a burrfish. Tropical rays, banggai cardinalfish. Sand eels and seahorses.
Saupes. In a tide pool, a young fish, sea anemones, hermit crabs, a shore crab and another sea anemone.
Insects & arthropods
A spider silhouette, a ladybird and a camouflaged insect. A bumblebee, honeybees and other insects. Butterflies: peacock butterfly and small tortoiseshell, red admiral, a swallowtail, a cabbage white, a brimstone and a tiger moth, a hummingbird hawk-moth. An unidentified buzzing insect, a green caterpillar. European garden spiders, one hunting, the other waiting.
A dragonfly. A gatekeeper butterfly (1 - 2 - 3). A bumblebee on a broom flower, a speckled wood butterfly and a peacock butterfly caterpillar. A southern hawker dragonfly. A vagrant darter dragonfly. A black, red and white caterpillar.
Reptiles & molluscs
A small lizard and a green lizard. Lizards hiding in the grass.
Snails on a wooden post. Another green lizard.
Dune
A sand dune topped with vegetation, the sand ripples underlined by the sun.
Snow
Jura in winter:
The wooden chalets of the resort, a very clear day, fields and forests, the colour of the trees, blue shadows on the snow, snow flakes glittering, snow texture.
A snow-covered grid and the trace of a bird.
Unspoilt snow on a path under the trees, between snow-laden firs. Snow piled up on branches and on vertical logs.
Firs under snow, their branches looking like fingers, a snow flower and sculpted branches.
The forest in black and white, a small snowy Christmas tree, a few dots of colour.