Nature

marchugo · Oct 6, 2020

Our Dutch camper website Califorum.nl has started a thread with pictures of nature around the camper and around the house: animals, birds, flowers, mushrooms, clouds, sunsets.
I like the idea, and will do a kick-off here. Maybe others can dig into their own collection.
Have fun!

Regards from Amsterdam,

Marc.

Yesterday in a wood near Amsterdam I saw these mushrooms on a dead tree:

We call these "elfenbankjes" (ivory benches?), in Latin: Coriolus versicolor). It's so ugly that it is beautifull...

Same wood near Amsterdam: Red Sulfur Head? Way more elegant than the previous one.

Hotel California · Oct 6, 2020

If we start posting pictures , at least it need to be lose to the Cali or else the picture can be taken anywhere....

I have a few , starting with this
At a Campsite near Copenhagen last year.

marchugo · Oct 6, 2020

Well, with covid still around, pictures of nature taken during a walk in the neighbourhood should be allowed too....

Meoncoast · Oct 6, 2020

One of the main uses of our van is to take in nature wether on a day out or on a trip away. 2 pictures taken Monday. Both within sight of the van.

Meoncoast · Oct 6, 2020

hotel california said:
At a Campsite near Copenhagen last year.

He is after your nuts

Finlay · Oct 6, 2020

Meoncoast said:
One of the main uses of our van is to take in nature wether on a day out or on a trip away. 2 pictures taken Monday. Both within sight of the van.View attachment 67450
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Goldfinch and Kestrel?

Hotel California · Oct 6, 2020

This was in Holland, you need to have a good look or enlarge a bit to spot the roe.

Meoncoast · Oct 6, 2020

Interestingly there has been treads on Dog's Bikes Surfing hobbies etc. First time I recall nature hobbies being posted about.

marchugo · Oct 6, 2020

hotel california said:
This was in Holland, you need to have a good look or enlarge a bit to spot the roe.
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Is the feather from the pheasant you plucked? Germans from Bayern wear these on their hat.

Hotel California · Oct 6, 2020

@marchugo , no idea which bird the feather came from .
Some may have seen my recent thread our september trip in France where we drove next to a boar witch most likely not survived a hit from a car or lorry

Sadly just a few days later again a loss due traffic
never ever came accros a badger other than thisone.

westfalia · Oct 6, 2020

hotel california said:
@marchugo , no idea which bird the feather came from .
Some may have seen my recent thread our september trip in France where we drove next to a boar witch most likely not survived a hit from a car or lorry
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Sadly just a few days later again a loss due traffic
never ever came accros a badger other than thisone.
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You should drive more carefully, fookin ell nothing is safe
when you're on the road.

marchugo · Oct 6, 2020

It's time for some contemplation. A small wild orchid in the fields near the camping at Staffin, Skye.

TripleBee · Oct 6, 2020

Just a quick search.

vwsween · Oct 6, 2020

Any more in the van?

ThomasHJ · Oct 6, 2020

There were hundreds of nice mushrooms around when we took a walk in the forest yesterday

And to stay with @hotel california 's theme of beautiful animals that sadly enough turned into roadkill.....

vwsween · Oct 6, 2020

Cannot eat a whole one!

Zebedee · Oct 10, 2020

Tidying out the Cali and our friendly robin came to help

GrumpyGranddad · Oct 10, 2020

ThomasHJ said:
There were hundreds of nice mushrooms around when we took a walk in the forest yesterday

And to stay with @hotel california 's theme of beautiful animals that sadly enough turned into roadkill.....

Didn’t realise you could spatchcock a fox!

marchugo · Oct 17, 2020

Crocuses next to the parking place of the Cali. Normally we see them here coming up in February. Now they raised their heads today, October 17th.

Regards from Amsterdam,

Marc.

GrumpyGranddad · Oct 17, 2020

marchugo said:
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Crocuses next to the parking place of the Cali. Normally we see them here coming up in February. Now they raised their heads today, October 17th.

Regards from Amsterdam,

Marc.

I think they are the Autumn variety:

Description
Colchicum autumnale, commonly known as autumn crocus, meadow saffron or naked ladies, is a toxic autumn-blooming flowering plant that resembles the true crocuses, but is a member of the plant family Colchicaceae, unlike the true crocuses which belong to the family Iridaceae.

marchugo · Oct 17, 2020

Thanks for the heads-up. You’re probably right, as I read on some websites. They are rare in the Netherlands, and toxic. Used against rheuma and cancer... in spring they should show leaves,I will follow them.

Marc.

Karlos · Oct 18, 2020

This little guy had a lucky escape when I was cutting back a planted border on the side of the drive our new Cali was going to live.

Seaview · Oct 18, 2020

We’ve had lots of driftwood washing up on a local beach and I noticed this new to the area creativity around the use of driftwood. Looked particularly interesting yesterday against the threatening sky and a spring tide.