Birds Birds Birds

[arntloeber]

Mute swan, „Höckerschwan” (Cygnus olor) weathers off the storm in a yard this noon
iPhone in flight …

[arntloeber]

young Common chiffchaff, „Zilpzalp” or „Weidenlaubsänger” (Phylloscopus collybita)


young Common whitethroat, „Dorngrasmücke” (Sylvia communis) with exercises

[Liz01]

Arnt, thank you very much for this beautiful pictures It shows that you are a professional

I hope the swan weathered the storm well. Applies to all our birds. It must have been bad for the cranes. They usually use the shallow lagoon (Bodden) waters as a place to sleep and rest.

There was a breach in the dike on the Barther Bodden. I hope everyone kept their feet dry. The fire brigade was on duty day and night. Great work! Today I'm going to look at the coast.Dune collapse between Graal Müritz and Dierhagen... let's see how bad it is

[Polly]

young Common chiffchaff, „Zilpzalp” or „Weidenlaubsänger” (Phylloscopus collybita)

...I love this little guy.


Great snaps!

[arntloeber]

male Common linnet, „Bluthänfling”, „Hänfling” or „Flachsfink” (Linaria cannabina or Carduelis cannabina), at the cliff of Fischland/Baltic Sea taken after the session with the Sand martins from the beach, free handed, similar distance and direction


1600 mm, f. 22, 3200 ASA results in 1/1000 sec.

[Liz01]

Today on the lagoon meadow .. lots of cranes

[Liz01]

more pics




and a video

[sova]

Good morning to all
Good morning Liz

How nice, there are the beautiful *trumpets*
Thank you Liz...it must have been a beautiful sight.

Image from your video (here my heart stopped for a moment)


for a moment I thought this was BS


Thank you so much, Liz

[sova]

Arnt....beautiful pictures of the chiffchaff

[Liz01]

Today on the Bodden Meadows:
everything is flooded. It rained for days. Some of the cycle paths are also no longer passable. Today I saw many geese and whooper swans are flying southwest.





here whooper swans are starting from the flooding meadows. the ducks stayed there. I didn't get much further than that. The path was flooded and another path could only be used by boat. It's hard to imagine me traveling on the bike path in a canoe


The correct name is Ribnitz See,but it is a lagoon like all the others here too.

[arntloeber]

Barn swallow, „Rauchschwalbe” (Hirundo rustica)



1600 mm, 40.000 ASA, 22f., 1/320 sec.
Distance more than 6 meters, the massive balustrade of the weir at Werre channel at half way as a hide.

Young barn swallows at the same place, but now me lying down just behind the long part of the balustrade awaiting the „resters” so,



200 mm, 100 ASA, manually exposure-sets 9f., 1/160 sec. and TTL-Flash


and this was taken from above



200 mm, 400 ASA, manually exposure-sets 6.3f., 1/250 sec. and TTL-Flash

[arntloeber]

Barnacle goose, „Weißwangengans” or „Nonnengans” (Branta leucopsis)

More than a thousand geese at Saaler Bodden next to the wetland Werre


all at once up, crossing the dike


stop at the Werre



1600 mm, 3200 ASA, 22f., 1/1250 to 1/800 sec.

[arntloeber]

Common starling, „Gemeiner Star” (Sturnus vulgaris)

end of summer at wetland Werre, morning meeting




flock over the Werre towards Fischland




collecting on trees nearby

[arntloeber]

Common kestrel (female), „Turmfalke” (Falco tinnunculus) chasing over the cliff of the Baltic Sea using the updraft

manually exposed 200 mm zoom
800 ASA, 5.0 f., 1/800 sec.
correction of color temperature

[Liz01]

Arnt

great pics You can see that a professional is taking photos

I saw today many birds on my way to the Darß!
On the way back I recorded a group of geese with my smartphone. It looked like a sea eagle had disturbed them. After they all fell to the ground, they flew up again. But I didn't wait. I had already been cycling for 3 hours! I wanted to go home

[arntloeber]

Barn swallow, „Rauchschwalbe” (Hirundo rustica)

in the beginning of July
youngsters in their first days of flying, sitting at branches to be fed

preselection of distance, manually exposured in variety
1600 mm, 6400 till 12800 ASA, 22f., 1/400 to 1/1000 sec.
first upward – freehanded,
then horizontal – sitting with elbows on the knies

[arntloeber]

[arntloeber]

Western marsh harrier, „Rohrweihe” (Circus aeruginosus), female

chasing at the „seaside” of Werre, taken before the next pictures
200 mm, 200 ASA, 4.5 f., 1/4000 to 1/2500 sec.

[arntloeber]

Greylag goose, „Graugans” (Anser anser)

climbing


juvenile White-tailed eagle


WTE over a flock of Barnacle Geese


These three pictures are taken within half an hour east and west to the Werre.

[arntloeber]

Northern gannet, „Basstölpel” (Morus bassanus)
Helgoland in start of May