I adore animals and photographing them is a great joy for me. Would love to get my hands on a good zoom lens one day to get into wildlife photography more. Oh and a macro lens for bugs please! But for now I take what I can with my standard (50mm) lens, and here are some of my favourite shots of animals, birds and bugs (are they technically animals too?) from 2020.

Pigeon sitting on a rock after a bath in a fountain at Park Güell, Barcelona.

Neighbour's cat saying hello at my doorstep. It's a very interesting cat. It will always greet me when I pass by, let me pet it once, but if I try the second time it will always bite my hand and start chasing me away.

A Husky relaxing at the gates of a Chinese embassy residence in Vilnius. I took photo this just as the first quarantine was introduced in early spring, so it portrayed the collective situation quite well.

There was a whole swarm of these by the river bushes while I was having a hike at Nėris Regional Park last summer. Fortunately these beautiful blue critters are really not shy and let me get close for a photo.

And lastly a green bug sitting on a patch of white flowers. I took this at a botanical garden where there were many beautiful flowers in full bloom. Hope you enjoyed this short visual trip and thank you for reading!