“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 :)
Tag Archives: berlin
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 ;)
Sunset Berlin
This glowing red thing is about to hit the ground.
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?
Berlin – Unter den Linden
Unter den Linden (Under the LimeTrees) is street connecting Brandenburger Tor with Alexanderplatz in Central Berlin.
Firewooorks
Some Fireworks in Berlin
Mine? Mine?
If some gull finds something every other gull NEEDs it.
Green Windows
Whaaats this ? Well yep, usally i post birds and nature, but i used to make all kind of things. So now this. Old pictures though :)
Fog and Birds
There are some birds in this shot ;)
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.
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.
Thunderstorms
Announced as a really hard thunderstorm we were barely hit. Berlin seem to have kind of forcefield again every thunderstorm. So, only
Shot with an old 500D an the bad Kit-Lense.
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.
Long Tailed Tit
Or “Bird on a Stick” because of their enormous tail while having a shape of an ball.
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.
