Some greenfinches (Chloris chloris) sitting in their lookouts and singing to attract the females.
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Reed Bunting
A reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) is soaked by the rain. Its searching for small snails, insects and worms in the wet ground.
Work Work
Just 2 “making off” pictures of today. Was quite the rain, but the equipment is weather sealed – so the only wet thing here was me. But thats okay.
Washing Programm
A reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) is soaked by the rain. It enter the dry programme and rotates fast to get the feathers dry again. Shoot in Wuhle, Marzahn.
My Home
This tree sparrow find a home, and a partner. – Perfect Day for birdy.
Great Tit
Great tit hanging around. And feeding.
White Stork
The spring is here! Or is already sommer?. My first white stork in this season so I guess this is a male. The Males arrive first, prepare the nest, and then wait for the females to appear, hoping the made the long travel.
Wrong Place
This grey heron appears to have missed his nest. The choosen “partner” dont really seem to approve. Currently there are 8 pairs of herons breeding in the reed of karow.
Okay, I better go…
Long-Tailed Tit
A Long-Tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus) does the weirdest wrenches to reach the food.
Middle spotted woodpecker
This relatively rare bird is 21cm big and builds the nests itself by hammering a hole into soft wood.
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.
Robin Redbreast
Speciesname sounds like a name for a pirate. Somebody should put pirate clothes on this bird.
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 get the idea :)
And heres the “making off”. Tethered Shooting, Macbook, 500D + 70-200 f2.8
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.
Nesting Coot
The coot (Fulica atra) is preparing its nest. Currently there are no eggs, but I guess there will be in a week.
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.
Cormorant
A cormorant visited my in Schlosspark Charlottenburg while I was waiting for a kingfisher to appear. (But he didn´t came.).
Starting Swan
The swan swom out of a small canal on the big river “spree” – looked around – and started on the big runway.
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 lense.
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.
