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a few pictures from my new homeland
a kind of common snipe
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common moorhen or swamp chicken (Gallinula chloropus )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_moorhen

juvenile
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juvenile
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they are very shy
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I found a white stork nest nearby - there were three chick, now there are two
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ringed adult
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Red Kite I've been watching him since spring
Yesterday he/she flew over my head :laugh:
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and the last pic :laugh:
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Two days ago I was on the pond again.
common moorhen or swamp chicken (Gallinula chloropus ) with chicks of different sizes. Some are extremely tiny!

adult with a chick- she was feeding it
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another chick was alone
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these two were tiny. there were 2 more- I didn't even know they were chicks. I have never seen such small chicks on a pond :laugh:
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Pictures from today
Parent Stork from the nest in Klockenhagen - searching for food
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four White Storks on a field
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one flew off
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the others flew off too
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Today on Saaler Bodden near Ahrenshoop
White tailed eagle and lapwings

preening between the food :laugh:
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WTE saw me and wasn't interested.
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He continued preening
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today I saw a lot of Migratory geese!
White-fronted geese - Greylag geese - Barnacle geese

roughly in this area. I was almost stunned by this crowd
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these are not birds, but is was too cute. I saw 9 deer on a meadow
two of them :innocent: I've never seen this before. so as not to disturb them I turned back and chose a another way for my tour
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Seagulls
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she/he has mussels in its beak
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Cormorants, popular with fishermen :laugh:
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hungry little one :whistling:
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The parents don't want to give fish :mrgreen:
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The meadows were full of geese. these are a few kilometres filed and meadows on the Bodden. I've been watching them for days. They are near my home.They rest there and fly away at around 11:00
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countless!
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