17-10-2018 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - SMOOTH HARVESTER ANT (genus messor)

15-4-2018 CHOBE RIVER, NAMIBIA - AFRICAN STONECHAT (Saxicola torquatus)

The African stonechat or common stonechat (Saxicola torquatus) is a species of the Old World flycatcher family (Muscicapidae), inhabiting sub-Saharan Africa and adjacent regions. Like the other chats, it was long assigned to the thrush family (Turdidae), to which the chats are convergent. Its scientific name refer to its appearance and habitat and means "collared rock-dweller": Saxicola from Latin saxum ("rock") + incola ("one who dwells in a place"), torquatus, Latin for "collared".

In the past S. torquatus usually referred to the entire "common stonechat" superspecies and some sources still keep it that way, but all available evidence strongly supports full species status for the European (S. rubicola) and the Siberian stonechat (S. maurus) of temperate Eurasia, in addition to the island-endemics Fuerteventura chat (S. dacotiae) and Réunion stonechat (S. tectes) which were never unequivocally accepted into S. torquatus. The Madagascar stonechat is also considered distinct. In addition, the well-marked populations of the Horn of Africa uplands may well qualify for an additional species.

17-4-2018 CHOBE RIVER, BOTSWANA - COMMON SANDPIPER (Actitis hypoleucos)

14-4-2018 CHOBE RIVER, NAMIBIA - AFRICAN ELEPHANT (Loxodonta africana)

15-4-2018 CHOBE RIVER, NAMIBIA - EGYPTIAN WHITE WATER LILY (Nymphaea lotus)

17-10-2018 RACO DE OLLA, VALENCIA - NORTHERN SHOVELER (FEMALE) (Spatula clypeata)

17-10-2018 - ALBUFERA, VALENCIA - LITTLE EGRET (Egretta garzetta)

17-10-2018 ALBUFERA, VALENCIA - CATTLE EGRET (Bubulcus ibis)

17-10-2018 ALBUFERA, VALENCIA - GLOSSY IBIS (Plegadis falcinellus)

17-10-2018 ALBUFERA, VALENCIA - GREY HERON (Ardea cinerea)

17-10-2018 DEVESA, VALENCIA - COMMON GREENSHANK (Tringa nebularia)

17-10-2018 ALBUFERA, VALENCIA - EURASIAN KESTREL (Falco tinnunculus)

16-10-2018 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - NIGHT BLOOMING CACTUS (Cereus jamacaru)

15-10-2018 CALPE, ALICANTE - VIOLET CABBAGE (Moricandia arvensis)

15-10-2018 CALPE, ALICANTE - WILD CARROT (Daucus carota)

15-10-2018 CALPE, ALICANTE - WALL BROWN BUTTERFLY (Lasiommata megera)

14-10-2018 VILLALONGA RESERVOIR, VALENCIA - GREEN SANDPIPER (Tringa ochropus)

14-10-2018 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - EUROPEAN FIELD CRICKET (Gryllus campestris))

14-10-2018 VILLALONGA RESERVOIR, VALENCIA - EPAULET SKIMMER DRAGONFLY (Orthetrum chrysostigma)

14-10-2018 PEGO MARJAL, ALICANTE - WHITE STORK (Ciconia ciconia)

14-10-2018 LA FONT EN CARROS, VALENCIA - EUROPEAN GOLDFINCH (Carduelis carduelis)

14-10-2018 LA FONT EN CARROS, VALENCIA - CIRL BUNTING (Emberiza cirlus)

The ideal farmland habitat is a mixture of grass and arable fields, divided by thick hedgerows with pockets of dense scrub. They can tolerate a certain degree of urbanisation, and are found in green spaces in towns and cities, even Rome.[citation needed]

They are sedentary in nature and will often travel only 250 metres (820 ft) from their nests to forage in summer, and up to 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) in winter to find stubble.

2-8-2015 LAGUNA DE GALLOCANTA - COMMON SUNFLOWER (Helianthus annuus)

The common sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is a species of large annual forb of the genus Helianthus. It is commonly grown as a crop for its edible oily seeds. Apart from cooking oil production, it is also used as livestock forage (as a meal or a silage plant), as bird food, in some industrial applications, and as an ornamental in domestic gardens. Wild H. annuus is a widely branched annual plant with many flower heads. The domestic sunflower, however, often possesses only a single large inflorescence (flower head) atop an unbranched stem.

Helianthus annuus (common sunflower) belong to the dicotyledonous category, distinguishing them from monocots. As dicots, sunflowers possess embryos with two veins, known as cotyledons, a characteristic feature that sets them apart. The veins in their leaves exhibit a net-like pattern, in contrast to monocots, which typically display parallel leaf veins.