Harriers and butterflies

Today, in ‘s-Gravenland, a great cormorant sitting on a boat, drying its wings.

The Verlengde Bergse Pad in Ankeveense Plassen nature reserve.

A painted lady butterfly.

This is a marsh harrier video.

A female and a male marsh harrier.

A buzzard circling in the sky.

A speckled wood butterfly on a mountain ash tree.

A common blue damselfly.

A small tortoiseshell butterfly.

Four gull species on the meadow: lesser black-backed, black-headed, common, and herring gulls. Also, a white stork flying.

Dutch butterflies: here.

Now butterflies are also being counted in China, Australia and Israel: here.