Tag: bird

  • More Cormorant

    More Cormorant

    I was walking around a Lake in Berlin, beautiful sunset. But its damn cold, my hands freeze holding the metal lense… A single cormorant was fishing. Unfortunetly i cut the wing.. but in the action it’s hard todo, right?

  • Mine? Mine?

    Mine? Mine?

    If some gull finds something every other gull NEEDs it.  

  • Some Tits

    Some Tits

    Look, these are some nice great and blue tits!

  • Red-backed shrike

    Red-backed shrike

    Red-backed shrike like to use to thorns to kill and “store” insects. Usally those from plants. They start to like all kind of different spikes as well to use for this purpose.  

  • Sparrows

    Sparrows

    Saw them while watching do cormorants. A flock of sparrows preparing for nesting. Doing preening, looking all sleepy.  

  • Cormorants

    Cormorants

    Before i moved to Berlin i never had seen this bird in a distance where you could see the beautiful patterns on their wings. They are probably one of my favourite bird. Compared to other city-birds they are still very reclusive and don´t like to be approached. I know of bigger populations on Wannsee (for example Insel…

  • Courtship I

    Courtship I

    As written before, still testing Cameras. This ones were taken with a borrowed 7D MKII. I like the AF System, it´s a lot more advanced than the one of 7D MKI, but still suffering from the same “problems” when taking pictures directly into the sunlight like these ones. So basically i focused manually. Great Creasted Grebe…

  • Common Kestrel

    Common Kestrel

    I am currently thinkin on buying a new camera. My old one has some weird issues with the center AF Point. So i rented a Canon 5D MK III . Its a really nice camera. The AF System is fast, Image Quality is “good” (even if not *that* much better in my opinion). The Problem…

  • First Cranes

    First Cranes

    The first migrating cranes gather together with the local ones. Today I already counted 500. I guess there are around 5000 cranes in the area. In a month there will be 130.000.

  • Turncoat

    Turncoat

    My first :)