And here close to Nürnberg the winter lasted about 3 days
Some cold nights, even down to -12 Celsius.
But only 3 days of snow. Eternal fall.
Moss has taken over all of my lawn.
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Some cold nights, even down to -12 Celsius.
But only 3 days of snow. Eternal fall.
Moss has taken over all of my lawn.
Here in Calgary, South Alberta, finches showed up a week ago. Cheerful and cute birds. I hope they survive the current cold front (-12C today).
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I guess we all have our positives and negatives. We're called sunny Alberta and I love the sun especially when it's April and -20C. It doesn't help much for camera use outdoors though.
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The Longtailed Tits in my garden building a nest continue to amuse me. Here is one of them high up in a tree beating the hell out of a feather that he will use for lining the nest. Apparently, they "recycle" feathers from dead birds.
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The male and female work together to build their nest, taking nearly three weeks if it's early in the season, or doing a rush job of less than a week, if it's getting late.
The nest is shaped rather like a bottle, usually with a roof and an entrance hole near the top. They construct it in a bush or in the fork of a tree, from moss, camouflaged with lichen with interwoven cobwebs and sometimes bits of paper stuck on the outside.
To make the inside cosy for the eggs and chicks, a feather lining is added. They need a lot of feathers - as many as 1,500! Where do they find that many? Long-tailed tits pick up stray feathers along the way, or they may visit the bodies of dead birds to 'recycle' their feathers
And, here is the nest viewed from the top and the side.
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Hi Alan.
I just hope he is not there for your long tailed tits! At the hide where I volunteer we witnessed the local Kestrel leave his perch and swoop through the bird feeders, fortunately all the tits saw him coming and took cover! It surprised us how quickly they returned (a couple of minutes at most) once he returned to his perch, a telegraph pole about 50yds away. He often spends ages sitting on this pole grooming or just watching, we have seen him go down and catch something on the ground below, possibly a vole.
It makes us laugh, a visitor will come down and get all exited, there is a Kestrel on the pole here and you are all looking at the tits and squirrels, yea he’s been there an hour on and off and we all have so many shots of him, it is boring now!
Cheers, Graham.
I just hope he is not there for your long tailed tits! At the hide where I volunteer we witnessed the local Kestrel leave his perch and swoop through the bird feeders, fortunately all the tits saw him coming and took cover! It surprised us how quickly they returned (a couple of minutes at most) once he returned to his perch, a telegraph pole about 50yds away. He often spends ages sitting on this pole grooming or just watching, we have seen him go down and catch something on the ground below, possibly a vole.
It makes us laugh, a visitor will come down and get all exited, there is a Kestrel on the pole here and you are all looking at the tits and squirrels, yea he’s been there an hour on and off and we all have so many shots of him, it is boring now!
Cheers, Graham.
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No, he is about 1/2 mile away. I am more worried that we have a couple of magpies in the garden. One of them was perched just above the nest.
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Hi Alan.
Very nice shot of the bird world Mafia, not often one sees the colours.
Cheers, Graham.
Very nice shot of the bird world Mafia, not often one sees the colours.
Cheers, Graham.
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More luck than brains, kind of... This is a photo of an European blackbird, males are ordinarily black with just a splash of yellow beak. Sometimes, a genetic. game of chances gives an unusual combo of white and black feathers. This is not an albino bird, the proper name is leucistic blackbird.
Not my usual gear, took 55-2504/5.6 as a lens. I walked by this place countless times with whites on 7D2, but the bird did not bother to show up. And if I had no camera, the bird would just sing from the branch
Not my usual gear, took 55-2504/5.6 as a lens. I walked by this place countless times with whites on 7D2, but the bird did not bother to show up. And if I had no camera, the bird would just sing from the branch
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