8 For years, I've had a guilty pleasure: yellow baby ducks.
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2 Suddenly, while I was innocently enjoying a calm spring evening, this cheerful whistler almost pushed its blue breast into my face. The hint was clear, even I didn’t need ObsIdentify for that!
A bluethroat....
Birder For a Day
3 Happy 2017! I wish you all a year in which you can turn dreams into reality. A year that allows you to become, be or remain who you are, a year to tell what’s to be told and to give what should be given. And hopefully this will automatically lead […]
51. Happy 2017 – Reflections
3 Murmurations & mental processes Prior to writing an article, a storm might rage through my head. Ideas spontaneously sprout, patches of words, too fast to grab, fly by. Separate figments spin round like autumn leaves on a windy square. Meanwhile, elusive associations whirl down ceaselessly, occasionally shaken up by a […]
46. Chaos in Motion: murmurations & mental processes
2 Because a photo can say more than a 1000 words, I hereby present you my 2015 in photos: January At least we had some winter and some beautiful mornings in magical misty mood. Februari We had a few hours of snow. Enough to capture a red fox and […]
43. 2015 in photos
2 What’s with these goslings, fox kits, lambs, kittens, ducklings, cubs and cygnets? How can they make us photographers do things, like lying down in the mud and voluntarily crawl through goose shit? Do they have some kind of supernatural powers..? Nope. They have what all baby animals have: The C(ute)-factor. […]
40. The C-Factor: Goslings
Egyptian Goslings (Alopochen aegyptiaca) Did you know…… Egyptian Goslings aren’t popular at all? But that the found a way to reverse this hostile tide…. …..with a highly effective and ruthlessly efficient weapon…? >> Read more
PhotoFriday 8: Egyptian Goslings (Alopochen aegyptiaca)
Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) Did you know…… The kingfisher is able to switch between monocular vision (eyes used separately) and binocular vision (eyes used together). It uses monocular vision in air and binocular vision in water. It’s underwater vision might not be razor sharp, but certainly good enough for […]
PhotoFriday 6: Common Kingfisher
Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) Did you know…… Flocks of several thousands of starlings move through the sky, like they are doing a dance together. They gather around sunset and create complexe shapes. This phenomenon is sort sol (Danish for “Black Sun”) If a predator bird enters the flock, the […]
PhotoFriday 5: Common Starling
The Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) Did you know…… For a long time, swallows were believed to hibernate in holes in the ground or underwater, withdrawn in some kind of torpid state. Nowadays we know they migrate to warmer countries during wintertime.
Photofriday 4: Barn Swallow
1 The Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) Did you know…… Mute swans often mate for life as a monogamous couple. They even raise the cygnets as a pair. Mute swans often use the same nest each year, restoring it if neceassairy.
PhotoFriday 3: Mute Swan
2 1. If it Walks Like a Goose And it Talks Like a Goose…. As soon as this Army of Cuteness arrives, the most fanatical birder goes “awwwwwwww”. Bold loitering spontaneously share their sandwiches, a homeless worriedly counts whether they are as many as yesterday. 2. Interview by Bored Panda […]