Comedic Wildlife
The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are back for 2021!
Check out the photos. They are sure to make you smile!
Photo by Chris Charles on Unsplash
Category: Nature
Gotta love the otters…
It’s been a while since I’ve created a post, so it only seemed fitting for my first post to be about the otters! Check out this short video of no-otter-left-behind!
Courtesy of thepoke.co.uk
Photo by amanda panda on Unsplash
Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards!
I don’t have much to say about cute animal pictures, other than we can never have enough of them! The 2020 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards finalists have been revealed and they certainly will bring a smile to your face. Check them out here. What’s your favourite?
Photo by Ray Hennessy on Unsplash
What a dance…bird dance, that is!
I posted an article a while ago about chickadees, and how watching them fly around made me smile. Well, I watched these brief video clips about two different types of manakin birds doing a mating dance, and they made me laugh! Nature is amazing, and these dances are a must see!
Blue Manakin: YouTube video here.
Red-capped Manakin: YouTube video here.
Squirrel Smarts – Obstacle Course
Nature is amazing in many ways. Sometimes it’s expected, and other times, not so much. This video is just over 21 minutes, but it’s a must watch if you love nature, especially squirrels! Grab some popcorn, sit back and be amazed!
Creativity at its finest…
It’s hard to admire some people’s creativity, especially when it makes you smile! Check out this stop motion video created at someone’s house. Well done!
Video courtesy of getaway.co.za.
Adorable Sleeping Fox
For the nature lovers, check out this article, courtesy of thedodo.com, about an adorable fox sleeping on top of an old tree stump. It’s hard not to love seeing pictures of animals enjoying some relaxing time of their own!
Read the article here.
Awesome Illusions
Most of the stories or information on this site are about nature, pets, family, travel, and wellness. But sometimes I need to deviate for certain reasons.
And one of those reasons is for the amazing. I found this article about the best optical illusions of 2019, and wow, they made be get beyond smile and into the ‘that’s incredible!’ realm!
Check these out, they are truly amazing and will certainly make you get beyond smile!
The Best Illusions of the Year (Gizmodo.com).
Enjoy.
Turtle Brothers
We were fortunate recently to have taken a family vacation in beautiful Maui. The smell of the ocean, the beaches, and the sun are most amazing!
One day we were down on a beach watching the surf and surfers, and noticed a few dozen green sea turtles resting on the beach. One of the local marine experts mentioned to us that they often come ashore and rest for a while in the sun, away from the dangers of the ocean.
We sat there for a while watching them, but not only was it about watching the ones resting, there was a constant flow of turtles coming in and out of the water, starting or finishing their afternoon nap. It was quite incredible looking out into the shallow ocean and seeing turtle after turtle landing on shore for their afternoon siesta! We would also see them poking their heads out of the water looking into shore, making sure they got the right landing spot!
After about 10 minutes of this, we saw one bigger turtle land on shore and slowly push itself up the beach, in a fight between its weight and the drag of the sand. It seemed to be determined to get to a certain spot, and nothing was going to get in its way, because it came across a smaller turtle resting in the sand, and rather than go around, it went right over top! It was a hilarious sight as the bigger turtle squished the smaller one, body, face, and all into the sand!
As we were all laughing watching this, I leaned over to my two sons and said, “Hey, that must have been the smaller turtle’s older brother, because he did it on purpose!”
Well, I must say that some things in life are truly precious, and they are moments that you want to put in a box to relive at any time. One of those is the intense, full on laughter of young kids! After making my comment, my two boys burst out into a red-faced full on breathless giggle, that will live on in my memory forever! (And, not to mention watching big brother turtle climbing over his younger brother!).
Laugh on everyone, life is awesome.
The Bearded Dragon
Are there any beardie lovers out there? Aren’t they incredible pets? We had one for a number of years (RIP Sandy) that brought lots of joy to our lives. Watching her as a tiny reptile running around her habitat chasing little crickets, to a full grown beardie sunning herself on her hammock, it was all great fun together.
What got me most about the beardies is their incredible ability to sleep at any moment. Literally, one minute she would look like this…
Doesn’t she look like she’s aware and awake, ready to pounce on any nearby prey? Turn your head for a second, and when you turn it back around, you’ll see this…!
They have an incredible ability to fall asleep instantly, magically locking into whatever position they were last while awake! I came to her habitat one morning, the lights were still off, and I found a cricket sleeping on her head and she was fully asleep!!
Awesome.