Month: February 2015

  • Cormorants

    Cormorants

    Cormorants are somewhat hard to take pictures of. There are rather shy in my area so you cant get close to them. Additionally they are mostly black, which is hard to take pics of, too. Currently I really try to take pics of then.The first one on the top is in the late evening at…

  • Calm Lake

    Calm Lake

    Late evening. We had finally some clear skys. Now that the sun nearly left there is only a soft haze of orange left.

  • Rarity – Snow Bunting

    Rarity – Snow Bunting

    A snow bunting!. In the first moment I couldn’t relate this to anything. This bird don’t belong here and is a rarity in Germany. IF then they visit the Baltic Sea in small flocks, but not this abandoned airport in Brandenburg. This one was especially weird as it was totally alone. I laid down on the landing runway and…

  • The Mandarin

    The Mandarin

    You can easily tell that they don’t belong here. With only a few exceptions we really don’t have those intense colorful birds. Beautiful colored by the late evening light they really stand out of the rather greyisch boring surrounding here at Tegeler Lake. (thanks to Dadriel for finding them)

  • Tree Sparrow

    Tree Sparrow

    What a small fluffball. Good that they are making alot of noise, otherwise i just had walked past them.