Spring and Summer in Germany

[Lussi05]

Fireblade, you are so lucky. I love cranes..

[fireblade1]

Fireblade, you are so lucky. I love cranes..

"bird of fortune" (ok?). Yes I like them also. There are not so many cranes here. And I like more to see/hear them in the air. Btw. also wtes.
Today they were a bit closer and it was not because of me that they start calling. It was a foreign crane who was chased away some time later


And here are all heads up

[fireblade1]

No rain today and fresh, not hot, air. Saw no toads today. One young wte had some food on the ground. Cranes again
Young one streching his wing (ready for takeoff, I think)


All digiscoping pictures are with selftimer (2 or 10 sec.) so I am also lucky to have the heads up. This time I was lucky because of the marsh harrier (Young or female, I do not know)

[vainamoinen]

No rain today and fresh, not hot, air. Saw no toads today. One young wte had some food on the ground. Cranes again
Young one streching his wing (ready for takeoff, I think)


All digiscoping pictures are with selftimer (2 or 10 sec.) so I am also lucky to have the heads up. This time I was lucky because of the marsh harrier (Young or female, I do not know)

It's female marsh harrier. Young birds of this season can't fly around yet.

[fireblade1]

It's female marsh harrier. Young birds of this season can't fly around yet.

Thank you vainamoinen. There was today also a dark coloured male and some days ago a very bright male.

[Fleur]

I believe that many people go to germany to go somewhere in a nice area bird watching

beautiful pictures of the cranes, and nice you can spot the heads up and the marsh harrier ( also a beautiful bird )

[Felis silvestris]

Beautiful photos! And really lucky to catch them all!

[fireblade1]

Think, everthing is smaller in germany
one of the three toads I carried across the track

The kestrel-box in the distance (scope= 25x)

The pohnsdorfer kestrel-youngsters. Saw four. It was a 15min rec. an I made some cuts

[fireblade1]

A few new pics
Yes, it is true: Sunshine in germany (north)

Do not know what this was

and

[fireblade1]

And:
Tested a new lens:


"Rohrweihe" with a mouse in the beak

: Find the white egret (Silberreiher). And there is a "Singschwan" (I swear)

[vainamoinen]

A few new pics
Yes, it is true: Sunshine in germany (north)

Do not know what this was

and

In middle photo is Blackcap female, in lower - Garden warbler juvenile, but not sure for 100%, in upper photo keine Ahnung what it is.

[Felis silvestris]

Could it be a Buchfink - Common Chaffinch?

Anyway, the bird enjoyed the sun!
Great photos again!

[vainamoinen]

Could it be a Buchfink - Common Chaffinch?

Anyway, the bird enjoyed the sun!
Great photos again!

In first photo is Chaffinch, of course, but I was thinking about second

[fireblade1]

Thank you vainamoinen and Felis. I think that we all know it, but I have to learn to make better photos.
Today: Eagle-alert and a lot of birds in the sky, most geese. Then both wtes "visited" the crane-family

[fireblade1]

A few more





So, the whooper swans.

[vainamoinen]

Thank you vainamoinen and Felis. I think that we all know it, but I have to learn to make better photos.
Today: Eagle-alert and a lot of birds in the sky, most geese. Then both wtes "visited" the crane-family

Very many geese for this time of year. In welcher Deutschlands Teil ist das?

[fireblade1]

Very many geese for this time of year. In welcher Deutschlands Teil ist das?

I am very close to the baltic sea. Ca. 10km south of kiel (Pohnsdorfer Stauung). Since a few days, I think, the canada geese are ready with molting(?) and most of the young are also ready. And there are also many grey geese ready since some more days. And we have some "Nilgänse". I know one breeding pair

[Felis silvestris]

I must admit, I am a little bit envious that you can see WTEs! I would have to go to a "Falknerei" (I have checked, there is one not too far away) and the next known breeding pair is a good 150 km away. But forget about finding it without disturbing everyone around including them!

[Manu]

@fireblade: You are a lucky one to see so many and different kind of birds in your area... And WTE's too...Great .

[fireblade1]

Some weekend pictures. I saw "our" (I think) crane-family some fields away from their breeding place. So I mssed all of their flight-exercises.

Whooper swan

Duck family

Silberreiher

Starling