Autumn paints the landscape with other colors, brown, dark green, yellow and dark red dominate. Within this new color scheme, the biological pool surprises with its crystalline waters. The water temperature is already reaching low levels, so much so that the biological pool is no longer inviting for diving, at least in large parts [...]

Water mirrors in the landscape have magical effects. Whether by day or by night, they reflect the light and their surroundings, they are duplicating the beauty of landscape and sky that extends above them. Depending on the angle, weather and time of day, the effect changes. And it surprises us, every time again. Thus, [...]

Late summer is when they appear. From one day to the next they are there, visible, with no explanation of where all of a sudden so many tiny frogs come from. Sometimes no bigger than the fingernail, they already behave like the big ones, they know how to jump and swim perfectly. They like [...]

Biological pools are true bird observatories. Pete Downs' photo proves that a biological pool attracts the most varied species of birds. This little egret visits the photographer's biological pool, attracted by the croaking frogs and took the time to inspect the banks. Birds come to biological pools to quench their thirst and kingfishers look [...]

Few know that there are freshwater shrimp in Portugal. Inhabits rivers and streams. There are records in the center of the country, in the limestone areas  north of Lisbon and it is relatively common in the streams of the Algarve. Atyaephyra desmarestii, as scientists call it, is naturally distributed in the western Mediterranean. The [...]