Category Archives: Nature

Fehmarn 2014

A bunch of pictures of the Excursion to Fehmarn 2014. Visited the water-bird-sanctuary wallnau and the nature around it.
The highlight for me was a foto of an Eurasian bittern. They live really hidden and move rarely but make an really unique sound which reminds me of dubstep.

 

Common Starlings

13.04,2014 | Charlottenburg | Berlin

I had having dinner as a starling arrived on my balcony. He sat there on the handrail and started singing. After some moments a second appeared and watched him singing. They ran around the handrail, flew aweay a few meters and returned. Are they going to built a nest here? Anyway, what beautiful birds.

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Marsh Harriers

06.04.2014 | Karow | Berlin

I was really happy to see the pair of Western Marsh Harriers (Circus aeruginosus) back in their territories. I already found them last year and was able to watch them raising their chicks. Now they are rebuilding their nest which is between high vegetation on the ground. Western Marsh Harriers are rare and had difficulties finding fitting territories which led to nesting far from lakes in fields where the farmers killed lots of them by accident.

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