A hot day on the coast of the Baltic Sea: tansies, purple loose-strifes, white wagtails and a great cormorant taking a nap. I think cormorants are in need of a PR campaign. People don't like them here. After I had taken a few photos of the big black bird, a passerby even said to me that they hoped no more cormorants would arrive there.

It's frustrating.

*Start rant*
Sure, cormorants eat fish but their impact on the fish population is negligible. Sure, their colonies kill a few trees but how many trees does the Finnish logging industry cut down each year? Yeah, cormorants are not the issue. Besides, their droppings are fertilizers for other plants. They are not an invasive species – they lived here earlier until we hunted them to extinction. They have natural predators: white-tailed eagles. Yep, we killed almost all of them too. Sure, cormorants might be "ugly" and "annoying" but they don't deserve to be culled because of that.
*End rant*

#greatcormorant
#phalacrocoraxcarbo
#whitewagtail
#motacillaalba
#purpleloosestrife
#lythrumsalicaria
#tansy
#tanacetumvulgare
#helsinki
#finland
#summer
#july
#balticsea

#lythrumsalicaria #purpleloosestrife #nature #naturephotography #flowers #finnishnature #photography #canon #canonphotography #pixelfedphotography #naturephoto #thisisfinland #summer

Piéride butinant des fleurs de salicaire, pour mettre un peu de couleurs et de délicatesse dans votre timeline. #MayBlooms #Pink #Photography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Butterfly #LeptideaSinapis #LythrumSalicaria

Groupe de Mélitte de la Salicaire (Melitta nigricans) au repos sur Salicaire Commune (Lythrum salicaria) en fin de journée (vers 20H30).

Citadelle de Lille, juillet 2022

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Melitta nigricans group resting on Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) at the end of the day (around 20:30).

Citadelle de Lille, july 2022

#melittanigricans #melitta #mélittes #melittidae #lythrumsalicaria #purpleloosestrife #lythrum #salicaires #citadelledelille #boisdeboulognelille #hautsdefrance #nature

Auch ich habe die Staude des Jahres 2024, Lythrum salicaria, in unserem Staudenbeet. Sehr robust, natürlich insektenfreundlich und sollte im naturnahen Garten nicht fehlen. #staudenbeet #lythrumsalicaria

Hier ist sie dann endlich! Die Staude des Jahres 2024: Blutweiderich, Lythrum salicaria (Bild 1). Nachdem wir gestern ein Bild der Prachtscharte gepostet haben, hier nun wirklich der Blutweiderich, den viele mit der Prachtscharte (Bild 2) verwechselt haben.
Habt ihr sie im Garten? #blutweiderich #lythrum #lythrumsalicaria #staudedesjahres #prachtscharte