Category: Animals

  • Cormorants

    Cormorants

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    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

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    aku
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    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

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    aku
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    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…

  • Gulls I

    Gulls I

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    aku
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    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

    First Cranes

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    aku
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    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

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    aku
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    My first :)

  • Swaning

    Swaning

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    aku
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    A mute swan on Tegeler Lake, Berlin. Its happily washing itself, working the wings and tries to impress.

  • Little Grebe

    Little Grebe

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    aku
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    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

    Good Evening

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    aku
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    Northern Gannets in the orange evening Sun on Helgoland.

  • White Wagtail

    White Wagtail

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    aku
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    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.