Lovely!
Paul

Nice.  You could go full kodalith on the curves and turn it into something you could silk screen on a T-shirt

--
Larry Colen
lrc@red4est.com.  sent from Mirkwood

Am 16.06.24 um 19:17 schrieb Alan C:

We have to go to the zoo if we want to see any of those.

Great photos.

Ralf

--
Ralf R. Radermacher  -  Köln/Cologne, Germany
Blog  : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com
Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf
Fotos : https://www.fotocommunity.de/user_photos/770012

Very nice silhouet.

Ralf, nowadays we got Eurasian spoonbills breeding and living freely in
nature reservates and dune pools in the Benelux.

Henk

Op 2024-06-16 om 19:58 schreef Ralf R Radermacher:

Am 16.06.24 um 22:06 schrieb Henk Terhell:

Strange things are happening indeed. La Meuse from Liège (Luik) had an
article today saying that motorists hardly ever need to scrape all the
dead insects from their windscreens in summer because all the insects
are disappearing.  And that is no good news at all.

https://www.sudinfo.be/id848831/article/2024-06-16/les-belges-en-rencontrent-de-moins-en-moins-sur-la-route-des-vacances-et-cest-un

Ralf

--
Ralf R. Radermacher  -  Köln/Cologne, Germany
Blog  : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com
Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf
Fotos : https://www.fotocommunity.de/user_photos/770012

Am 16.06.24 um 22:06 schrieb Henk Terhell:

I was thinking of the elephants and antelopes that Alan mentioned in the
original message.

Ralf

--
Ralf R. Radermacher  -  Köln/Cologne, Germany
Blog  : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com
Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf
Fotos : https://www.fotocommunity.de/user_photos/770012

True. As an example in our country more than half of the number of
butterflies has disappeared since 1992 to 2023.

Henk

Op 2024-06-16 om 22:31 schreef Ralf R Radermacher:

We have visited the Kruger Park many times in the last few months all
characterised by poor sightings. A Ranger friend tells me that even the
international visitors have been complaining. The  animals can't have
just disappeared. I think the very high rainfall we have had the last 3
years (ceasing abruptly in March because of El Nino) is the reason. The
bush, especially the scrub Mopane, is still very dense and the isolated
water pans have not yet dried up. Good for the prey, tough for the
predators. Things will return to normal in the next few months before
the annual rains begin. The leaves will fall & the animals will be
forced to return to the permanent water. By September it should again be
possible to see the Big 5 in a single day. As for the insects, this is a
global problem caused by the insecticides in use today.

Alan C

On 16-Jun-24 10:35 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote:

Love it.  I'd like to see a little more space at the top though.

We have spoonbills here.  I think I've seen them in our local estuary.  Don't think I've seen one up a tree though.

Cheers,
Dave