Lias jigsaw puzzles: Birds

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2026-05-17

Toucan found a LEGO friend

In March 2025 this tiny LEGO toucan found it's way in our home and it was about time to find him or her a friend.

"I'm so excited"

"Will you stay on the ground or...?"

"Look what I found"

Finally!!

2026-04-07

Completed 7th April 2026

500 Pieces

Gannets

Painting by Mary Elliott- Lacey

Manufacturer: James Hamilton, England

The Northern gannet (Morus bassanus) is a seabird, the largest species of the gannet family, Sulidae. It is native to the coasts of the North Atlantic Ocean, breeding in Western Europe and Northeastern North America. It is the largest seabird in the northern Atlantic.

Nesting takes place in colonies on both sides of the North Atlantic, the largest of which are at the Bass Rock (75,000 pairs as of 2014). Just look at this rock! It is completely covered with gannets!

by Francis C. Franklin - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35264377

This is how the couples greet each other. They live in monogamous pairs, reach sexual maturity at age 5, and can live up to 30 years

Northern gannets have streamlined bodies adapted for plunge-diving at high speed as well as powerful neck muscles. The nostrils are inside the bill and can be closed to prevent water entry.

If you want to learn more from these huge birds (the can reach up to 1 metre length),

please check ebird

2026-03-22

Completed 22nd March 2026

500 Pieces

Black Cat and Raven

Ravensburger, 2022

2025-07-08

Completed 4th - 6th July 2025 (26th Megamarathon)

Oh yes, it was Megamarathon again. The 26th edition with approx. 71 participants and more than 266k pieces assembled all together. These were mine :-)

left: "African Animals"

right: "Dinosaurs"

Crocodile Creek, each 150 pcs.

top left: Paul Heusenstamm (USA, 1949) "Monarch Butterfly Tree"

top middle: FL Wright "Oak Park Studio Skylight", 1897

top right: Auguste Renoir "Woman with a cat"

below left: Jeanelle Dimmett (USA, 1990) "Cupcakes, 2013"

below middle: Christopher Marley "Butterfly Mosaic" aka Limited Lycaenidae Mosaic

below right: Georges Dorival (F, 1879-1968) "Venise, 1921"

top left: Robert Bissell "The Dance", 2003

top right: Tom Thomson (Canada, 1877-1917) "Marguerites, Wood Lilies and Vetch"

below left: Beth Van Hoesen "Bugs", 1985

below right: Viktor Schreckengost (USA, 1906-2008, watercolorist) "Guerrero Still Life XVIII"

left: Dan May "Ripple", 2011

right: Horace Taylor (UK, 1881-1934) "Brightest London is Best Reached by Under ground", 1924

top left: Edward Gorey (USA, 1925-2000) "Bibliophile with Cats"

top middle: Eric Kennington (UK, 1888-1960) Parachutes, 1941

top right: Darsie Japp (1888-1973) "Regimental Band", 1918

below left: F. Gregory Brown (British, 1887-1941) "Kew Gardens", 1933

below middle: Edward Gorey "Wrap it up"

below right: Tony Fitzpatrick (USA, 1958) "Bird for the Green Stars", 2014

top left: Moll Hashimoto (1951) "Cedar Waxwing", 2012

top right: Charley Harper "Red-Eyed Vireos"

below left: Kathy DeZarn Beynette "Owls and pussycats"

below right: Kenojuak Ashevak (1927-2013) "Floral Passage", 2007

Ravensburger Exit Puzzles, 99 Pieces each

top left: Charles Harper "Under the Sweetgum Tree"

top right: "Hillside Theater Curtain"

middle left: Charles Rennie Macintosh "Blue & Pink Tobacco Flowers"

middle right: FL Wright "Old fashioned Window"

below left: Die Harper "Crazy Cat, Crazy Quilt"

below right: FL Wright "Saguaro Form and Cactus Flowers"

Four Visual Statements with 99 pieces each

and this one!

1000 Pieces

Arc-en-ciel

2025-07-02

Completed 1st July 2025

1000 Pieces

Wild Animals - by Mario Zucca

Ravensburger, 2021

2025-06-08

I visited a botanical garden in Erlangen - and had fun with frogs

Erlangen is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. Together with Nuremberg, Fürth, and Schwabach, Erlangen forms one of the three metropolises in Bavaria. With the surrounding area, these cities form the European Metropolitan Region of Nuremberg, one of 11 metropolitan areas in Germany.

An element of the city that goes back a long way in history, but is still noticeable, is the settlement of Huguenots after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Please feel free and visit my 2nd post about the Huguenots in Franconia.

Today, many aspects of daily life in the city are dominated by the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Siemens technology group.

The University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität) was founded in 1742 by Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, in the city of Bayreuth, but was relocated to Erlangen the next year. Today, it features five faculties; some departments (Economics and Education) are located in Nuremberg. About 39,000 students study at this university, of which about 20,000 are located in Erlangen. The students allow Erlangen to be a young and cute city.

So let's enter the garden:

The history of the Erlangen Botanical Garden goes back to 1626 in the broadest sense, when a medical-academic garden was established in Altdorf for the newly founded University of Nuremberg. This ‘Hortus Medicus’ in Altdorf was the seventh such university garden in Germany. After its dissolution, some plants from there were transferred to Erlangen.

Just a few years after the establishment of today's Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen (1743), a botanical garden was created here in 1747 in front of the Nuremberg Gate in the southern part of the old town, which no longer exists today.