Or “Bird on a Stick” because of their enormous tail while having a shape of an ball.
Category Archives: Animals
Great Reed Warbler
The biggest of our european warblers. Its unique in its voice and appearance (just by the size). Is singing most of the times quite hidden or at the side of the reed you cant see because its the water side…
Red Kite
Red Kites are beautiful birds. They have very long wings in comparison to their “small body” which is around the same size as an bussard. They eat everything they find and is not dirt or a plant. In this case a farmer was in the process of mowing his grass. And all birds of prey love when this is happening.
Mandarin Duck
Beautiful Mandarin Duck in the Schlosspark Charlottenburg in the evening light.
Starlings
Busy parents need to feed their chicks. Very exhausting times, but the children will be ready to fly out in a few days.
And as a last picture – parent says “noooo”.
Black Kite
Female Black Kite in Fahrland, Potsdam. We think its pregnant.
Colorcontrast
Most of our birds our grey, brown, black. But this one brings some color in the local avifauna.
European goldfinch.
Chicks
The Greylag goose in Berlin have their chicks. They are growing really fast. This one is 2-3 weeks old. The parents do really dont like me in their proximity.
Cormorant II
Aand another cormorant. On a lake in Charlottenburg this time again. The coot was all but happy the visit, but the cormorant just wanted to rest a little bit.
Cormorant
Aand another cormorant. On a lake in Charlottenburg this time. The coot was all but happy the visit, but the cormorant just wanted to rest a little bit.
Bearded Tit
Bearded Tit, or bearded reedling. I really like this bird, its colorful and has a nice contrast. It lives hidden in the reed. Your only chance to have a clear view is to wait at the end of an reed-field for them to appear to enjoy some sun.
Starlings Returned
Welcome back dear starlings. They are sitting on my balcony and singing. Soon they will built a nest – as they did last year. Gosh its so hard to take a good picture of a really dark bird.
Hooded Crow Hybrid
Northern Gannet
One of multiple posts for this animal in the near future. I brought quite some nice picture from helgoland with me. They are currently building their nests and mating.
All of this are free birds, of course.
Oystercatcher
Or to be precise: Eurasian oystercatcher. The first of the birds I shoot during my stay at Helgoland, and definitely one of the “character birds” of the island. You can see and hear them everywhere. They are pretty big, but hard to photograph because of the black/white contrast. You can choose to fail-exposure the black or the white. But apart from that: pretty birds.
Harbor Seal
I just returned from a holiday on Helgoland, and the first pictures I post are NOT of a bird. Weird thing, hu? – There will be birds, of course, and there will be a summary post for Helgoland. But for now, some habor seals ;)
Canada Goose
Beautiful evening. A pair of canada goose relaxed in the golden sun.
Greenfinch
Some greenfinches (Chloris chloris) sitting in their lookouts and singing to attract the females.
Reed Bunting
A reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) is soaked by the rain. Its searching for small snails, insects and worms in the wet ground.
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.
