While at work on the top (4th) floor in Delft, 2013.

sometimes animals just show up. at your door to give love and get food, and sometimes to just fall asleep and get their wings in heaven  

this female duck stopped by for 2,3 years with a male, always on the same time  

sticking up for my brothers and sisters, here with my aunty - 2021

2018 - This was a wounded butterfly at work which I took home to recover in my tiny garden surrounded by fruit, water, shelter.

The butterfly stayed for the night and flew away the next day.    

A video I made in the airplane (2019). You can see the airplane blades, right? Well, with my naked eye I could no see them move at all.

The camera registers this because of the shutter speed. 'Try to swat a fly and it will soon become clear that they're faster than you. Flies, compared with you and me, essentially see the world in slow motion. 

Some flies see six times faster than us, catching prey in mid-air in less than a second. This happens because animals see the world around them like a continuous video. But in reality, they piece together images sent from the eyes to the brain in distinct flashes a set number of times per second. Humans average 60 flashes per second, turtles 15, and flies 250. The difference between our perception of time and a fly's (or any other animal's) comes down to the speed at which the eye, and ultimately the brain, can record repeated rapid flashes of light. This is called the flicker fusion rate'. I don't always see the spirit with my naked eye, but I do feel (or hear) it's presence always. Like the soft sound of wings. I am very known with that sound since I befriended a hella lot of birds in the last 2 decades. Many of them loyal crows, and one raven of which bystanders (even a car driver once stopped his car and got out to ask) think they are always the same ones and belong with me. Hell no, they belong outside, Father gave them trees.

June 26, 2022. In my parents' garden, 3 loving chickens hatch their eggs. What you see in the eyes is indescribable, that is something you can only feel. The love was tangible, so strong, so visible, so intense. Love in its purest form. 

Jesus said that God Protects Us as a Mother Hen Protects Her Chicks - Psalm 91:1-4... and humans made this soft kind animal the most abused and slaughtered animal on the planet... Now think about this:  Typhus has been one of the great threats to mankind for centuries. Scientists believe that the disease has been around for thousands of years, but in recent decades, humanity has been able to protect itself against the intestinal disease with antibiotics.

At present, antibiotics are the only way to effectively treat typhoid fever, which is caused by the bacterium Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi. However, over the past three decades, the bacteria's resistance to oral antibiotics has grown and spread. Research in India, among others, shows that the bacterium is becoming less and less concerned with antibiotics. Even the latest versions are useless against typhoid fever. Worse, the resistant strains are spreading worldwide at a rapid pace. (source) 

Salmonella is a genus of gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria that are part of the natural intestinal flora of poultry, pigs, cattle, reptiles and pets. Salmonella species are therefore found in both cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals, but in the environment (source Wikipedia)

Billie Savage affectionately calls the pigeons skypuppies. She loves them like Rutzen loves sharks. She is able to instill a love for them and make them visible how they are, peaceful birds that need to be taken care of too. 

What is a stringfoot pigeon?

June 2022 Rotterdam (and many other big cities) is full off stringfoot pigeons. Never heard of such a thing before I met queen Billie (Savage). These birds suffer badly. The tangle gets tighter and tighter until circulation is cut off and flesh rots away. Now when I am able to catch one they are off to a pigeon nurse.
Read more about it here and here

May 2022 No stringfoot but an injured young one, found her in a corner of the subway. The pigeon underneath I picked off the street on June 26th

04-08-2022 this child was shivering and kept sitting down. I gave her to an angel from The Hague where she is being cared for. Seems to have lost her foot

Another dumped creation of God

During a walk in July 2021 I came across this sweet child. We exchanged hugs and I started to wonder if she had a house. The moment I was about to start a campaign to take her in if she didn't have a home, I found out that there are people who take care of her. Among others, by the new resident of a house whose people had left the animal behind..

In Dec 2021 I finaly saw her new mum. A wonderful old lady

Jeckyll Draeckendreck was also on my son's birth announcement. He was also family

my aunts little pumpkin

Little angel that was dumped. They did not succeed in catching the animal but when I drove by with the car I stopped, I opened the door and could take her on my lap. The animal found a wonderful life at my mums. 

Noa Piccolo

Noa loved to bathe.

Clarabella

Joined Noa after I patched her up on the balcony where I found her april 2020. She left in april 2021

One day I spotted 5 km away, a female Muscovy duck sitting alone along the water's edge every time. The local residents know the male duck (pic above) and gave him the name Jaap.  I made a poster with a call for more information about the female. When she's alone, I'll introduce them to each other was my plan

Nobody responded (summer 2021).  

Jan 2022. The female is no longer alone and a foundation is busy looking to find a nice home for Jaap

Oct 2022, Jaap is joined by a duck and goose who also seem to be alone for some days now. It would be awesome if these 3 really stick at each others side

Then I picked up the bee hotel from the basement that had been put away recently because the balcony is being repaired. To my great surprise, bees kept flying out. So they had hibernated in the hotel (I feel like a proud mother). After I had put the bees and hotels out I went looking for Clarabella, the balcony snail that has been here since April last year, with the plaster on her torn house. I found her eating my books again.    

The little child died the next day. The window was open, the day warm, but she did not fly away. She was deteriorating in front of my eyes. The last hour, oh that dreadful last hour I have seen it way too often, the fight for life. Holding on. Every being no matter how small wants to live.   

This little bee I found on the road 03-2020, also did not make it in the end. And last week I had taken a coot off the road that was hit by a car(guessing). I could still see his wing move. Afterwards, the animal welfare department informed me that the fracture could not be healed and the animal was put to sleep. I had seen a partner waiting for him / her outside by the lake. heartbreaking.

My father was sick, I was cleaning the house. A cat kept me company. I fed her and soon she took her children too

The father of the family was always watching. Within a few days the whole family was visiting and there was happiness. Until one morning I heard the mother cry very loudly. I came out and saw one of her kids with the guts out, dead. As if something had taken a bite out of her belly. All the other children were gone and daddy cat was gone too. The mother was inconsolable.

Dumped Chickens

Dec 2021 They were shivering and closing their eyes all the time in the middle of the road. So I decided to take them home so that they could die peacefully there if necessary without hunger and cold (thought they were dying - they weren't). 

But at 6 o'clock the next morning there appeared to be 1 rooster, and it crowed incessantly. Then a chicken started to crow too. So they had to go back. It's okay to cackle, but you could hear them in the gallery very loudly. Within a night chickens were dumped again.It's a place where chickens and rabbits are often dumped, but this time it's about hand-tamed purebred chickens. There is a Christian family that has a company in one of the business premises that has built a pen for the animals and provides them with water and food. Everything minimal because you don't want to attract rats.

Because these animals are so sweet and tame I kept looking for someone who could house them. Finally I found Sandra from Comité Dierennoodhulp who put me in touch with Trini from Zwerfkip En Zo. Trini came to pick them up hardly a day later, bless her soul. Now the babies will have a better life. 

I was amazed how tame they really were 

thanks to Trini, this chicken dump is also monitored now 

Ant Mourning. Watched the ant for hours as he stood by his dead friend/mate(?). Other ants passed by but (s?)he did not want to leave the dead ant behind.
I don't photograph all animals, sometimes you don't have time to think about it. Like the little crickets. I also think that swans are very intelligent. I've guided a swan crossing the road a few times and they seem to understand you. Once upon a time there was a young swan who stopped in the roadway. I said walk on, then turned to the parents who were in the water. I said call him back before he gets hit. The father reacted immediately and furiously came out of the water and so chased the young swan off the road. For example, I (2022) again accompanied a swan that was walking on a roundabout. When I said we had to speed up, those legs suddenly moved forward at a fast pace. That was such a funny sight.

Two Tiny Crickets