An inquisitive old fart with a camera
General observations, generally during dog walks
A first!
We have never before seen a tortoise on the dog walk. You think that, if there were tortoises around, the dogs would have encountered them. But they acted absolutely mystified by this thing that wasn’t moving, but they knew by smell was alive.
We gave them a few minutes to be curious, then left the tortoise in peace.
Hard to do it justice with a photo: the farthest part of the beach was absolutely jammed. Today (at 6 PM) is the busiest I have ever seen the beach. The number of cars was amazing.
We visited a place in the hills below Minas, Uruguay, whose owner had taken on two brother capybaras (called carpinchos locally) from the local zoo. Apparently when they get to be too many in too small a place, they fight, and it’s ugly. The one who runs away in the first clip decided to go swimming rather than deal with the handful of humans watching at feeding time.
I heard a repeated chirping in the front yard, and saw it was an Hornero and chick, then realized they were in the back yard, and quickly closed the sliding glass door before the dogs figured it out.
(That’s a dog, not a tree top, in the center dune.)
I guess I’ve never thought about how big gulls are. My hand from pinkie to thumb tip is around 23 cm / 9 inches. Yikes!
Spotted on the dog walk today.
I went to cut some tarragon for some chicken going into the oven, and this guy popped up and just sat there, unfazed.
Just because. A delightful little plant among several I traded for some cacti a month or so ago in the weekly street fair.