Wet Horse
As mentioned in this post, I thought I should upload more horse photos to my blog, and I have shot quite a lot that I want to upload over time. The photo in this post was taken in Reinfeld, since this is a countryside it was easy to find horses everywhere. The photo was shot after it rained, that’s why the ground and the fur is so wet, but it makes the fur look interesting in my opinion. I hope you like the image, if so, check out my other photos.
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[ Smiles ] Superb photo!
Thank you Renard, I really enjoyed the countryside because I could find so many animals there 🙂
Lovely photo Dennis
Thanks Sue, I am glad you like my horse photo 🙂
That is an interesting photo partly because the horse seems a bit unusual. It seems like his hair is a bit longer than horses I am used to seeing.
Yes, it is a different breed… I don’t know a lot about horse breeds, but this one in the photo is very common here, I see them often in Northern Germany, but I don’t know how they are called.
I don’t know much about horses either.
I was curious about the breed too Dennis. Think I’ll have to ask Mr Google what it is. 🙂
I find it incredible hard to find out about horse breeds, even with Google… there are so many horse breeds 😀
I had a look myself and found the same thing even when I just tried German breeds. I ended up more confused. Would your uncle know, being from the country?
No, he won’t be a help to answer this question, my uncle just lived there for three or four years, but it was more about the house and not about the nature or the animals… in fact, in the five months I’ve been there, I learned more about the area and the animals than they knew. His family always made jokes about me like “After five months, they could drop Dennis with a parachute, landing on a field or in the forest, he would still find back home”, but even if it was a joke, I do now know the area that well and I would find back home (laugh). I explained them where I hiked, what kind of birds I have found, and so on…
They don’t know a lot about the animals there, I always tried to convince them to hike with me, sometimes they came with me, but then only on very short 2 km hikes (my hikes are usually 12 – 22km, depending on the weather, my mood and my condition). It was different with my cousin, he is 15 and followed me a few times, he was totally excited about the nature and didn’t even have a problem with 18 km, he was fascinated on the hikes. Due to the disease, my uncle couldn’t hike so long anyway, but even without disease he always prefered to go fishing, we did that often back then in Salem (Ratzeburg) where there is a lot of nature too, I always enjoyed this with my uncle, but it’s some time ago. My uncle knows everything about the fishes in our rivers and the ponds 🙂
Well I guess this is going to remain a mystery horse or maybe pony then. 🙂
I think so 😀 Like all my horse photos… with birds I do at least have some hints before I research, like colors of the feathers and so 🙂
They are so cute!!
Yes, I wish I could have a horse too 😀
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These are wonderful horses. I’ve never seen ones quite like them. Are they big?
I thinkt they are a bit lower than the other horses I found here, but not much.
They must be a particular breed with which I’m unfamiliar. Interesting!
Yes, I tried to find out, but learning about horse breeds seems to be more difficult than learning about different birds, because with birds you have much more clues when you research 🙂
I have found that too. If you can’t find the actual breeder, nobody seems to actually know. A lot of horses are also cross-breeds, or relatively new, so it gets even more complicated 🙂
Good point Marilyn…. that’s why I basically just gave up and now I focus on just uploading the horse photos when I have some to share 🙂 With birds however, I do often accept the quest to find out about the species if I don’t know the bird… but even there it can get tricky at times 🙂
But at least there are a LOT of birder sites … and there are books. I have five, maybe six, some quite old, but all of them invaluable in helping me identify things. The books give lots of little tips on how to tell similar birds apart … often a problem. There’s a whole section called “Little Yellow Warblers” in one of my books … but in the end, unless I get a VERY good look at the bird, I say to myself “Oh, that was one of those little yellow warblers!” 🙂
That’s true Marilyn. There are so many good websites about birds, I found some favorite German sites for example where it is often easy to find birds… I don’t own bird books myself, but my grandpa did lend me a very good one, this book is a help too. Still there are some tricky things, like female or male differences, seasonal plumage, local variations and so on. Anyway, to me, researching about birds is much easier than learning about different horses 🙂
But horses are great to ride 🙂
Definitely, and I wish I would have my own horse 😀 But I can’t have everything 😀
Ditto!