Month: March 2015
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Courtship display
One of -the- species I am associating Courtship display is the great crested grebe. The male is bringing a present, then they imitate each others movements, they “dance”. After a while they start to run over the water, close together. Iam still waiting for a good shot of this last impressive step.
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Robin Redbreast
Speciesname sounds like a name for a pirate. Somebody should put pirate clothes on this bird.
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Eclipse
On the 20.03.2015 we had a partly eclipse of the sun. The maximum degree of coverage was between 75% and 80%. Because of having an un-optimal sunfilter (only a ND64) I had a little bit of fear the sensor would die so I only took short time for focusing. The result is not optimal, but you…
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Flying Diamond
An Kingfisher, the flying diamond. Finally I got a better picture of him. Its really hard to get close enough. He is very small, and very shy. I think he didn’t see me because i was sitting in the reed.
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Nesting Coot
The coot (Fulica atra) is preparing its nest. Currently there are no eggs, but I guess there will be in a week.
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Multi Reflections
This two Canadian geese sitting in a reflection of the sun 2 big far away windows were creating on the water while being illuminated on the front by the late evening sun.
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Starting Swan
The swan swom out of a small canal on the big river “spree” – looked around – and started on the big runway.
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NutCat
Nusskadse. Okay, its a squirrel. I was laying on the ground before a nest of long-tailed tits and waited for them to come back as this squirrel appeared. It came down a tree and approaches. After while it was so close I couldn’t focus it anymore. A minute later it looked into the sunshield of my…
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Eurasian bullfinch
Eurasian bullfinch (or “Gimpel” “Dompfaff” how we call them) is a red, round bird with an quite small beak. Hed feeding on buds and seeds (on trees). This pair visited us near a observation point while we waited for Great Bustards to appear.