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Australian daisies (Brachyscome iberidifolia), also called Blue Daisy. Belongs to the genus of the daisy family (Asteraceae).

Monochrome processing exemption after flowering.

45mm, 1/125 sec, f6.3, ISO 100

So it now looks anywhere on our balconies. Nope, nice eats watts! My family loves flowers, of course. Garden centers are currently in high demand. Potting soil with a high proportion of guano, a variety of young plants, sowing - the shopping list is long, filled to the bursting of the bicycle trailer regularly.
My oldest, now read compatible (you know: tongue clamped between her teeth, finger on the plastic, "Guano ... guano!"), Asked me right in the market, what was the guano.

I had it on the tongue, to tell him that "guano, even so, this is a fine-grained mixture of various calcium phosphates such as brushite (CaHPO 4 · 2H 2 O), monetite (CaHPO 4), whitlockite (CA9 (Mg, Fe) [HPO4 / (PO4) 6]) and various apatites and nitrates and organic compounds. "
But nothing there, instead I said ". Bird poo that landed on limestone" Big eyes, then (maybe one or two Ideechen too loud): "bird poop?"
I nodded, he did it but as a budding biologist to know more - penguins, cormorants, all right.

"But those, right?" He asked, at home, pointing to our breeding guest. No, not even alone, because the host but secretes liquid manure, but it lacks in the area of ​​limestone.

Now times that among us: The one with the planet and everyone can Blomen. Provided that the thumb is green rather than black, but it will work. Our breeding guest, however you can not beat determined.
Two years ago, a duck trying to take possession of our window box. Although they laid eggs, but did not return to complete their breeding business. We were so considerate as a family with two boys can just be. Last year they came back, laid eggs and hatched again until the optimum point. The family was allowed to watch even as the chicks with their Eizähnen paved a way through the dish to life. The chicks were taken to the Fleet, together with mom, as she prepared to push the little ones from the balcony. During the subsequent inspection of the "incubator" for the design and provision yes but is more of a flower pot, my wife discovered two eggs that were not in the pile of shells, but somewhat marginalized. But because they were still warm, incubated the surrogate mother on the eggs. A neckline is good not only for aesthetic reasons but also as a nest. From two eggs actually hatched chicks. One thing was very sickly and small, one had a bent towards the rear head. The schmächtigere Pipsie was called, a decision of the guys who bend the neck was called stargazers.

Pipsie died just three weeks later, had hardly put on weight and denied even the hand-feeding chicks with loose grain in a largely syringe. Stargazer is some six weeks ago has become its chick has eaten grain later even themselves. The weakness of the neck had initially given to high-dose vitamin K-/B-Injektionen but occurred again.

Some things are much easier to bear when one is not the one to which the chicks scurry behind, on whose shoulders it falls asleep and his beard plucked it continually. # Small break from writing.

This year, the duck's back. And so she sits there, watching us as we watch her, gives her last petticoat, in order to provide a good breeding business, and when we wake up soon left early, hopefully have gathered a whole bunch of chicks around.

The biggest favor they did me when they could not return two eggs. And my wife does not serve the section as a breeding ground again and again I would not risk my emotional integrity. (@ Johanna: What does this actually makes for an impression, when men are at the vet and weep for a duck chick?)

Clouds. Gray on gray. Overcast. But in winter the branches of the trees shows very impressive. The monochrome image was taken, then provided with a sepia tint.

Recording with an analog SLR (Canon A-1) and 50mm lens 1st: 1.2.

45mm, 1/160 sec, f8, ISO 640, fill flash.

St. John's wort. Focal length 45mm, 1/80 sec, f8, ISO 100, +10 diopter close-up lens, fill

The anthers of the St. John's wort flowers are clearly exempted, then released from the fuzzy environment. The eye is drawn so automatically. The minimum focus range was achieved by using a close-up lens, which has reduced the shooting distance to about 5 cm blooms on nearly 10 cm.

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Overturned tree in the nature reserve "Boberg lowlands." 45mm, 1/320 sec, f10, ISO 200