A winter visit to Kejimkujik National Park in Nova Scotia always brings photographic rewards as the wildlife is much calmer and more focussed on finding food than worrying about me and my camera. This deer was curious, though, as we were quietly and patiently waiting for the right moment. She features on my ‘Animals’ gallery.
Badger sincerely wants to wish everyone a happy Caturday. The most sincere cat you would ever hope to meet, she’s been with us for 2.5 years now and will be 9 in February. From the moment she arrived from her hard working life to live with us, she settled right in and was the epitome of gentle kindness. She never seemed to mind her name changes – from originally being Clover through Aja to finally Badger. Have a great weekend, friends.
My Animals photo gallery is here if you want to see more.
Rupert was, quite simply, the greatest cat. If he were here today, I’m sure he would wish you all a happy Caturday, friends, as do I. I hope yours is a good one.
It’s always the orange ones.
These cold and bleak fall days our wild and honey bees are nowhere to be seen, so it’s lovely to look back on the halcyon summer days when this scene was so common. Who would have thought milkweed flowers were so lovely? Have a lovely day, friends.
This was taken with my 180mm macro lens.
It’s time to introduce our two Cornish Rex cats for the animal lovers visiting my site. Aja, above, is a retired breeding girl of 6 years old and Claudia, below, is her daughter, one and a half years old.
This little male Philadelphia Vireo has spent the past two days trying to get into my sitting room through a closed window. (Pretty sure this is what this is, according to my bird app.) I guess he is seeing his reflection in the window and thinks it’s a rival male needing to be driven off.
Original Posting: May 10, 2012
Up and down round and round
Dream of pretty little horses
(From the children’s lullabye)
This is a photograph of Friston, our young Hafflinger colt in 1995, surrounded by our bantams. I originally posted this image with the post below on Google+ and have today brought them over to my website to share from here.
Original posting: Oct 5, 2011
Friston – one of our Haflinger horses in a setting as idyllic as it looks – Dordogne, France
Friston was the first colt we bred when we lived in France. Haflinger horses originated in Austria and are always chestnut in colour with white manes and tails. they are strong and sturdy, even tempered, willing and courageous.
The bantams you see around him are an ancient breed “Barbu d’Anvers” (Belgian Bearded bantams from Antwerp), full of personality and a pleasure to see. We started with a trio (two hens and a cock) and all three of them shared the brooding of their nests and the rearing of their young together, as tight a family unit as you would ever hope to see.
René Delin, a noted animal painter had in his possession a pamphlet edited in Paris in 1617, which depicted a bearded chicken from the Pays-Bas.
The first day of my arrival in New Zealand (or was it the -1 day of my arrival, as I lost a Monday in there somewhere?) I thought I would take a little stroll around the neighbourhood and see where I was. I looked up on this roof and saw what looked like a flat stuffed animal lying on this roof. As I got a little closer to it to get a better look it moved its head and stared at me.
This character seemed amazed to see a Pom walking down his street! He was relaxing in the hot sun of this lovely Spring morning. He had to be the first thing I photographed on my trip.
See all of my animal gallery here https://stevenkennard.com/blog/skgallery/animals