Our garden ... full of life!

[uwe]

Hello,

here in Germany there isn't that quantity of specimens as in the US - hmm, Germany is also much smaller.
Our garden seems to be a little island in a landscape ruined by too much buildings, streets and autobahns (uff, i could use a word in German - is "Muttersprache" also used in the US?).
So i've done a little collection of those animals i could get photographed with my Pentax K20D (i LOVE this camera!!!) ...

 

[uwe]

Hello,

sorry, i couldn't get the doubled pic out ... normally i wanted to post this one:

 

[Oddball]

Incredible pics!!! Luv the stoat. Is it a pet or a visitor?

 

[Po.verse]

Awesome pics!

 

[Arachnar]

Nice is that a pine marten?

 

[HandsomeDevil]

Beautiful pictures! I really enjoyed them and it helped shine a little light on an otherwise dark day.

ThankYou.

 

[Austin]

wow, great pics. must be a very relaxing place.

 

[polish]

Those animals blow away what lives in my backyard, are they are just random things you saw around your home?

And GREAT pictures as well.

 

[Kevaldo]

my god do you live in a zoo? great pic's

 

[uwe]

Hello,

first - thanks for all those nice comments!

All of these animals are wild-living animals, no pets at all. Our duck had been a wild-living animal and i tried - during the cold season - to beware him from starving (he escaped from a duck-farm and were used to live in freedom ... and now he has the choice to go but wants to stay).

It's not a pine marten, it's a stoat ... very seldom in Germany, due to their habits to kill kept rabbits they were hunted everywhere ...

Some of these animals are coming also in our house - the lizards over the walls through the balcony door, the salamanders - i don't know how they manage it!

There are much more specimens but i have to search those pics (i've shot many thousands over the years) served on extern data media. Most pics were made random (these animals aren't tame but i have a feeling that they are feeling no one will do anything bad to them!), but i do know where the reptiles love to take their sun-bath and i do know the times when the salamanders are in action.

Yes, it's a little paradise we are allowed to live in ...

So i will post some more pics: