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You are watching an adorable scenery of a Coot family. Mother and father Coot are feeding the kids. Coots are small water birds as you can see and they often seen on lakes, ponds and rivers. They are close relatives of the Moorhen. A Coot is black with a distinctive white front face shield and beak. The Moorhen however is brown and black and has a distinctive red frontal face and beak. The chicks are also black but with a orange fluff around the face and body. They look really cute with their fluffy feathers. Coots are omnivorous. They sometimes eat sometimes small animals, eggs and fish, but mainly plant material. They need to dive for food and that is not a big deal for them. They can easily dive below the surface of the water up to six seconds to depths of 2 meters or even more. They re-surface quickly, like a cork as you can see in the video. The chicks are floating on the waves of the diving parents in a funny way. As you can observe, they have big feet, mostly grey, sport weird lobed toes. Those feet help them to walk on floating water plants and rafts, but also to distribute their body weight. Enjoy the video of this Coot family and if you have time left, please write a comment below.

Biting, prancing, kicking and smelling - these Konik horses demonstrate their magnificent power and strength during a fight in the Oostvaardersplassen, the Netherlands.

In an open field in the Oostvaardersplassen, a nature reserve in the Netherlands, some wild Konik horses are causing a lot of commotion by rumnning, fighting and biting each other. Most of the other horses are trying to avoid the battle and step aside. If horses fight it will be for dominance or for the right to rule their herd. In their herd they always want to be the leaders. We dont know what the reason of this batlle was, but it looks very impressive.

Mum guides her ducklings to a safer place because of spawning breams. The Breams are pretty busy and make a lot of noise and move wild and quickly at the surface of the water. A water ballet with a lot of splashing water is the result. This all happens in the Oostvaardersplassen, a nature reserve in the Netherlands between Lelystad and Almère.

Wonderful to watch this close-up of a great tit who is searching for food and find a larva in the ground. He holds the cocoon of the larva between his claws and uses his beak to get the larva out of the cocoon. The Great Tit is one of the most common breeding birds in the Netherlands, but also throughout Europe, Central and Northern Asia and the Middle East. In the Netherlands we call him a 'Koolmees'. He is well known and also the largest titmouse of our country. He has a black head and neck with prominent white cheeks, yellow underpart and olive upperparts. He is usually nesting in a hole in a tree. She lays around twelve eggs. Both parents raise the chicks. But the mother incubates the eggs alone. Enemies of the great tit are squirrels, weasels and woodpeckers who may be raided the nests. A severe winter can occur great mortality too.

A Cormorant losing some substance before take off.....

It is so beautiful to watch this butterfly sitting on a hydrangea flying away in slow motion. The movement is elegant and wonderful to watch. This Cabbage White Butterfly was in my backyard enjoying the nectar of the Hydrangea, before it flew away. Awesome to watch the movement in slowmotion, isn’t it? This butterfly is probably a male, because it has one black spot on his wing. Females have two spots in the same place. When he raises his wings you can notice some yellow or light green colours on the wings. It eats cabbage when its still in its caterpillar stage. Enough information about this beautiful butterfly. Time to watch the wonderful moving butterfly in this video. Enjoy!

This time lapse of melting snow is made in two days. It's just so great to watch the snow melting in this format! It looks like the grass is breathing again when the snow is gone. So mesmerizing!

It’s a paradise for a sparrow in this Elstar apple tree. Lots of choice to select a juicy and delicious apple. He starts eating, but after a few bites the apple falls down. Look at his face! What a funny expression! The sparrow follows the fallen apple and looks dissapointed and surprised. This isn’t what he had expected. You can find this house sparrow in most parts of the world. This bird is family of the Passeridea. Males have bright black, white and brown markings, while females are coloured pale with smaller brown and grey markings. He lives in urban and rural settings like this one in my backyard. It’s a small bird with a length of around 16cm. This little fellow had bad luck and his expression when the apple drops down is priceless and funny.

The dog in the video tries to take a nap at broad daylight in the middle of a boulevard. It doesn’t seem he is sleeping deeply. Is it because of all the noise? Probably……. Do you know how much dogs sleep? When you own a dog for the first time you would be surprised how much time it spends sleeping. Here are some facts: It seems that larger dogs sleep more than smaller ones, because they need more energy to be active and therefore they tire quicker. Puppies sleep more than older dogs because they are more playful and use a lot of energy to grow up. Sometimes they sleep 20 hours a day! Older dogs also sleep more than younger ones. The average time of sleeping is around 12 -14 hours a day. Dogs snooze much less deeply than humans, so they wake up easily, but that’s also the reason why they need some more sleep.

Slow, slower slowest. Great to follow the moves of these two fighting wild horses in slowmotion. This is filmed in the Oostvaardersplassen, a nature reserve in the Netherlands. The horses are Konik horses.

This dark brown, orange, black and white coloured butterfly is medium large and is of the type Charaxes jasius. Males wingspan reaching 65-75 and females 73-90 mm Butterflies are graceful and fascinating creatures and bring colour to the garden. In general they are happy with the sweet nectar in flowers, but some like the sap of a tree or an overripe apples or bananas, sliced oranges or animal manure. This one that I met was very happy with my can of beer as you can see. Hope he didn’t drink too much, but on the other hand they never fly away in a straight line….

“My aim is to create a permanent exhibition of great art in the public space of Łódź,” says Michał Bieżyński, founder of Łódź Murals. Urban Forms Foundation was created in 2009. Since then there are more than 30 large mural paintings in the city of Łódź. (Poland) I had the pleasure to explore many of these murals thanks to my Polish colleague (Magda) who drove us through the city, while listening to the beautiful music of U2. Music: Phife for Life - Otis McDonald (YouTube Audio Library) Murals in my video: 1. artist: M-City (Poland) adress: ul. Legionów 19 2. artist: DALEAST (China) adress: ul. Łąkowa 10 3. artist: GREGOR (Poland) adress: ul.Wólczańska 159 4. artist: Paulina Nawrot and Ola Adamczuk adress: ul. Pomorska 22 5. artist: TONE (Poland) adress: ul. Legionów 57 6. artist: ETAM CREW (Poland) adress: al. Politechniki 16 7. artist: ROA (Belgium) adress: ul. Nowomiejska 5 8. artist: SEPE/CHAZME (Poland) adress: ul. Próchnika 9 9. artist: Zoer / Velvet (France) address: ul.Sienkiewicza 71 st 10. artist: Raspazjan (Poland) address: corner of Sienkiewicza and Tuwima street, 11. artist: M-CITY (Poland) adress: ul. Tuwima 16 12. artist: ETAM CREW (Poland) adress: ul. Uniwersytecka 3 13. artist: SAINER (Poland) adress: ul. Uniwersytecka 12 14. artist: GREGOR (Poland) adress: ul. Jaracza 59 15. artist: OS GEMEOS (Brazil) / ARYZ (Spain) adress: ul. Roosevelta 5 16. artist: MORIK (Russia) adress: ul. Więckowskiego 9 17. artist: KENOR (Spain) adress: ul. Pomorska 28 18. artist: EDUARDO KOBRA (tribute to Arthur Rubinstein) adress: ul. Sienkiewicza 18 19. artist: M-City (Poland) adress: ul. Legionów 19 20. artist: GREGOR (Poland) adress: ul. Roosevelt 21. artist: Design Futura adress: ul.Piotrkowska 152 22. artist: Artist (Design Futura) and polish and dutch students

In my backyard a lot of sparrows were eating the seeds of Lavender. It was a joy to watch these little birds, eating and balancing on the branches of lavender.

Memories of my summer holiday in Gialova, Peloponnese, Greece. Flashbacks of Summer. I've been to the Polymnio Waterfalls and to Olympia, where the first olympic games took place.

One of the beautiful islands in the Ionian Sea. With beaches as Cape Drastis, Issos Beach and Gardenos Beach. The city's old town was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2007. Archilleion is the Palace for Empress Elisabeth of Austria, also known as Sisi.