Birds Birds Birds

[sova]

Thanks for the pics, Liz
Cranes....beautiful majestic bird

[Susanne]

Siskin invasion at my feeding place,Feb 27, 14:15 local time:

[Liz01]

adult white tailed eagle near my home

[Liz01]

he circled along with this juvenile

[hahe_]

adult white tailed eagle near my home

Wow Liz! Beautiful eagles and pictures

[Biker]

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for many weeks I hear him trilling nearby.
A few times I spotted a pair of greenfinches. since a few years they are rather rare to see with us.
Today I caught one with the camera in the Crataegus laevigata.
The Crataegus laevigata is visibly getting on in years.
the partner of the greenfinch had disappeared in the dense ivy of the house wall opposite.
(good that the neighbor opposite had closed the blinds)

[Biker]

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with my small 13 years old compact camera I snapped this sea eagle on vacation at the Baltic Sea



Edit
White tailed eagle ...

[balistar]

Biker, great catches

I am also very happy to hear and see the greenfinches here again. So many have died from the virus.

Followed by me (with the camera), from the cherry tree ...


....to the top of a thuja, this one sang his heart out


or did he sing in competition with this blackbird male ?

[balistar]

On my early morning walk I met this mallard couple


they are living here


this young great tit, born this spring, was looking for treats under my old awning

[balistar]

this gray heron sunbathed on the neighbour's roof top


and clearly enjoyed it


seems to love this roof, comes very often, here even in the pouring rain

[balistar]

Living in this small village for almost 40 years now and
until today I didn't know that i'm living in "eagle-town"





usually we are very well equipped here with common buzzards

[balistar]

and crows
on a huge tree by the church they nest like in a heron colony

I counted 11 nests this early spring

[Liz01]

I was in this area again today. It has become my favorite place. I go there almost every day now. I can't get enough of them
https://zaunq.de/festzaunbau-an-der-wer ... ss-zingst/

Caspian tern (Hydroprogne caspi) Almost extinct in Germany

[Liz01]

lapwings. today there were countless to see




lapwing and a wader. I was looking for a snipe, our Member Arnt Loeber had spotted one, the day before yesterday. Bad luck for me. I saw none!

[Liz01]

ducks

[Liz01]

I saw some gray herons. and countless little birds. Even with binoculars I couldn't identify them

[Liz01]

I still have to identify this wading bird. He is about the size of a lapwing. EDIT: it'S a juvenile Ruff! (Calidris pugnax) There is a starling too! BTW: A group of 60 barn swallows also was breeding there.

[Liz01]

a little beauty
OK i think it is a juvenile Ruff (Calidris pugnax)
Juveniles are bright buffy with neat scaly patterning on the upperparts. Flight often rather lazy, with deep floppy wingbeats; note white underwings, white sides to rump, and feet projecting well past tail. Males are much larger than females.

They are about the size of a kibitz. A lapwing is the size of a pigeon!

[Liz01]

yesterday
lapwings and grey heron


different ducks.

[Liz01]