We are back with photos, but I beseech readers to keep sending in their good wildlife pictures.
Today Uwe Mueller is back with some new bird photos from Bergisches Land, Germany. Uwe’s captions are indented, and you can enlarge the photos to enlarge them.
A Carrion crow (Corvus corone) looking curiously at the guy kneeing in front of it:
A female Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) in its typical pose, showing her beautiful wings with the characteristical blue-white pattern:
A Common blackbird (Turdus merula) singing its song. And they do it really loudly:
Eurasian chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs):
The Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius) with its raspy voice can often be heard in our local forest. Seeing it is a lot more difficult:
Common chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita), a small bird that can easily be confused with the √ (Phylloscopus trochilus):
Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea), for once not in its typical pose sitting head down in the bark of a tree:
A Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) landing in our local pond:
This Grey heron (Ardea cinerea) was photographed by me just yesterday [JAC: Last Saturday] …
… as well as these two juvenile Grey herons in its nest, together with one of its parents. The juveniles look a bit disheveled and have what I call the “Jurassic Park stare” much more than the adult birds. Well, they can’t deny that they are dinosaurs.
Beautiful pictures. Thank you for posting them!
Beautiful pictures! Makes my day
I’m guessing the notation is not a typographical error: √ (Phylloscopus trochilus).
What does it mean? There are plenty of birds, but not nearly enough to make avian world that complete.
It is the Willow warbler.
Lovely photos. I particularly like the puzzled-seeming crow.
Thanks so much. These photos are wonderful.
Great photos! I especially like the action/behavior in quite a few.
Excellent photos – thanks!
My wife didn’t get to really appreciate the beauty of female mallards until she found one this past week in our pool — with her 10 little ducklings. Apparently the female had been incubating the ducklings somewhere in a wild part of our backyard behind some trees. I don’t have space or time here for the long story about the mallard family, but if you want to see two of my short amateur videos, they’re at the links below.
https://x.com/Jon_Alexandr/status/1778964439389384994
https://x.com/Jon_Alexandr/status/1779613449162833945
The first is my own personal “discovery” video. The second video — actually fifth of many — shows the ducklings finally being able to get out of the pool by using my improvised desk-organizer ramp. (They were otherwise unable to jump high enough to get back onto the deck, and we were concerned that they would drown.)