Grey heron in Charlottenburg, Berlin. The poor guy cant swim so has to watch the cormorants eating all the fish.
Category Archives: Animals
Hiding Cormorants
“You cant see me!”
Had quite the effective fishing trip this guy. With filled belly he had hard time taking off. Especially because the plumage is soaked completely :)
Middle Spotted Woodpecker II
While they dont leave in winter somehow i mostly “catch” them in the spring. They are kinda hard to come by.
Highland Cattle
Ohhgosh it’s no Bird! – But still it’s Berlin. They are used to keep open areas.. open. So grassland and swamps are not overwhelmed by trees. Some other species depend on that. So – still kinda related ;)
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?
If some gull finds something every other gull NEEDs it.
Some Tits
Look, these are some nice great and blue tits!
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.
Long-eared owl
We found this (and 4 others) hiding on trees on a small graveyard in Austria. 
Sparrows
Saw them while watching do cormorants.
A flock of sparrows preparing for nesting. Doing preening, looking all sleepy.
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 Imchen) and smaller ones near Karow. But i still don´t know where the birds that appear in Schlosspark Charlottenburg come from. There can be seen quite often on the Spree-River but opposing to the populations they never hunt together there on that places.
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 showing their love. Taken in “Wolziger See”, BRB. Only cropped, not edited.
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 is the very very slow sequence. I probably can´t live with that. So – Result will be the 7D MKII or the new 1DX. Can I afford it? Yes. But do I really want it? Rather not.
This Common Kestrels where my “test subjects” for the camera. They are living in the heart of Berlin. It´s even easier to find them in the city then in the countryside. This pictures show 2 different female Kestrels. The second one had big success while hunting.
Gulls I
After a long day of rain and boring light in the last minutes of the day we had some intensive sunlight coming over a lake in Berlin.
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
My first :)
Swaning
A mute swan on Tegeler Lake, Berlin. Its happily washing itself, working the wings and tries to impress.
Little Grebe
A little Grebe in Malchow, Berlin. I didnt know these guys in the nuptial plumage so I firt mistake them as red necked grebe.
Good Evening
Northern Gannets in the orange evening Sun on Helgoland.
White Wagtail
I cant believe thats this the first white wagtail I upload here. I see them really often, but don’t bother to take a photo of them.
