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Great pictures, everybody! :thumbs:
a Female Mallard I came across
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and a Steller’s Jay:
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from today. again in the Bodden area :laugh:
a white buzzard. I saw it in this area already in the previous year

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Today I saw two adult sea eagle. They were close to each other. Probably a couple

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and here are Swallows nests, still occupied. They are there, where I live on the Baltic Sea. There are at this house 10 swallows nests. they are so cute :innocent:

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Liz01 wrote:and here are Swallows nests, still occupied. They are there, where I live on the Baltic Sea. There are at this house 10 swallows nests. they are so cute :innocent:
Yes, they are!! I love also the Eurasian swift. I rescue two chicks in the neighborhood.
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Pictures from today white stork :laugh:
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and Black Stork. He was so close that I could almost touch it.
I'm not sure if it's good for it, so near to the humans. It is a pair. They have had 3 chicks this year.

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Wow, Liz! What for a luck you had! So beautiful catches! :thumbs:
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does anyone know, what cygnet are younger. the white feathers or the dark color? I found both families in the Bodden area
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Yesterday I saw a flock lapwings on a field. There were an incredible many birds. As always, very far away. Or my lens is not good enough :rolleyes:
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yesterday I went with the bike in the National Park. 45 Kilomter to the lighthouse and the core zone of the National Park. I was hoping for nice pictures .... there was nothing.
I also saw a lot of tourists in the protected dunes. In Forest they played football and they screamed very loud. It's terrible!
Animals I saw not. Just a couple of seagulls and a small flock cormorants. There is also no ranger, who guides the tourists. they can do, what they want. there is certainly no lesser spotted eagle or black stork on the Darß. I do not even saw a white stork. This is not a national park. This is a major tourist money machine. There are no protected areas. I am very disappointed.


only this. In the core zone of the national park Darß - Protection Zone 1 :shock: a wind farm exactly there, where in winter the eagles. Money is still more important than the protection of animals
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Liz01 wrote:does anyone know, what cygnet are younger. the white feathers or the dark color? I found both families in the Bodden area
http://up.picr.de/26549343bh.jpg
http://up.picr.de/26549344ww.jpg
there are often light and dark colored youngsters in one family. This is regardless of the age. you took very nice pictures. i'll be in October at the baltic sea :D
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Biker wrote: there are often light and dark colored youngsters in one family. This is regardless of the age. you took very nice pictures. i'll be in October at the baltic sea :D
White cygnets are so called "polish morph". It occurs rather rarely.
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In my childhood there were every year several couples of swans breeding on the lake behind our House. there were quite often dark and light coulered cygnets. it is long ago - (50 years). has it become less common since the 60ties?
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Biker wrote:In my childhood there were every year several couples of swans breeding on the lake behind our House. there were quite often dark and light coulered cygnets. it is long ago - (50 years). has it become less common since the 60ties?
I don't know. I'm not an expert about the swans. But at least in Latvia now white cygnets are very rare. There are maybe a pair of observations during last decade.
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that surpised me!
here is an interesting publication about this theme:

"Aggression of parents against their own white
cygnets has been a factor limiting the number of
“Polish Swans” in the wild. Some cases are
known in which young were wounded or killed
by males (Baltzer 1955, McWilliam 1959,
Hilprecht 1970, Kear 1972). The white plumage
of cygnets is considered to be the reason for this aggression, since “Polish” young look older than
they are, and may be considered to be adult as
territorial intruders. The mortality of these cyg­
nets is 14% higher than that of grey cygnets
(Reese 1980), since grey colouration of normal
nestlings inhibits aggressive behaviour from
adults."

http://wildfowl.wwt.org.uk/index.php/wi ... 409/pdf_55
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Biker wrote: there are often light and dark colored youngsters in one family. This is regardless of the age. you took very nice pictures. i'll be in October at the baltic sea :D
October is a very good time. You'll see a lot of birds.
I wish you a nice time on the Baltic Sea :2thumbsup:
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here is an interesting publication about this theme:
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http://wildfowl.wwt.org.uk/index.php/wi ... 409/pdf_55
woow! Biker
this is very interesting. The white cygnets are doing well. There are only two. But they are a lot smaller than the brown cygnets the other family.
in the Bodden area there are many swans and cygnets . White cygnets I saw for the first time.
I thought, they are younger, than the brown cygnets . I'm a bit silly :slap:
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Pictures from today :shake:

kestrel :D
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and these birds? :help: There were very many. They flew over the Bodden
I did not a good picture. Wrong camera setting :slap:
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EDIT: Lapwings
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