Turkey is bird?
A rest day from running, what else to do but walk and bird 🙂
These are apparently uncommon now, I guess due to autumn migrations. This is a non-breeding male, which apparently do not migrate outside of their breeding grounds.
Disgruntled at my excessive amount of time spent looking at birds
Tis sometime since I posted, and thus I have plenty of photos.
See these so often and often ignore them, but this is perhaps not fair. They are pretty birds, and apparently one of the most intelligent in the world.
+ kunsthal display
hello there
It has been a busy time for me, filled mainly with socialising (my worst fear), and so I have not had a lot of time for birding.
Only a rearview shot of this little guy
A very blurry photo. It was quite raining, and this wee bugger was moving quite quickly.
I believe this one to be a Juvenile male, almost into adulthood.
Here is him flying away…
Much crisper photo, but much darker.
He prepares for flight
I say he, not out of misogynistic tendencies, but because I believe females are brown and have spotted chests.
In the paddock near my house.
I think their foot slipped in the last photo 🙂
I’m starting to think these guys should be called Grerons
Bro be yappin
Partner + Nala + take photo of me taking photo of them
The neighbours cat
Cat hiding in bush from Nala
The last few days have been filled with hobbying for me. Both birding and miniature painting. Here are some of the birds.
Perched on the tree outside my house
I hate that my nemesis may breed, but I must admit, their ducklings are very cute
This was a lifer for me 🙂
Caught bro yappin
Another lifer! Also, speaking of Hobbies, and this guy shows up. I can’t tell if it is eating something in the first two photos… Merlin says it catches insects and birds in the air and “eats them on the wing”, which I assume means “flying”, hard to tell.
This is a type of falcon. Very very beautiful bird.
Took me a while to identify as the most common species of Long-Tailed Tit look quite different (white faces).
This seems to be the A. c. europaeus from the europaeus group (which contains like 9 subspecies??) and is common to western Europe.
Which seems to be found in these locations normally. (I have no idea why there is one pixel in the urals)
Merlin has been identifying the call of this species for a few days, but this was the first one I have positively identified. Yippee!
These are very common in the area, you can hear them all the time.
Busy week, and no much time for birding (alexander, please, if you will)
I much prefer Rock Pigeons, but they aren’t very common here right now for some reason (at least I am not seeing them)
I initially thought these were Chiffchaffs, but the red in the face of the below bird made me think Goldfinch. Those without red are likely Juvenile Goldfinches. Google lens agrees, so I’ll go with that.
I believe these animals have become more and more common in European cities as people brought them as pets. They are apparently tough competition for native bat species.
From the tree outside my apartment. A pretty little bird. I could be wrong in this identification.
Birds are hard to see, who’d have thunk it.
My first attempt at capturing a robin. I quickly learned they move, and fall out of view, very quickly
According to Merlin, these things are uncommon, but I heard them constantly, heard being the operative word. Now a game of spot the robin:
I find focusing on these manually to be very difficult, perhaps I will improve. I am unsure if autofocus would be better or not, given how quickly they relocate, and how well they blend in.
Great Cormorant gang rise up
I think these guys eat berries or something? Incorrect, they are likely foliage gleaning for insects.
the typo remains
A lunch break walk with Nala, a very light rain following use throughout.
I believe these guys generally congregate in families, of which I believe there to be several living around my local pond.
It turns out my friend is not a lone, and may not ever have been the same bird every day. Alas, it is good to see he has company.
I believe I spotted 6 Cormorants on my walk today.
Spotted a swan, some Gadwalls, and a Moorhen, but no good photos.
I believe this is a female Gadwall, followed by her partner.
I arrived home from the office. The dog, of course, needed a walk. Her proficiency with the bike has improved recently, so we went for a cycle instead. We passed through the local park on the way back.
They are a regular of this pole, seemingly there most days
Two trees caught my attention due to the song coming from them, one with leaves, the other without.
I am unsure as to the species of all of these, perhaps they are the same.
Perhaps they are all Goldfinches. I can see some yellow on this birds wing, perhaps a juvenile.
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