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I am a star(ling)!

by Marc 06/11/2021 | 3 IMAGES IN THE BLOGPOST | 2 Comments

When in spring the farmer plowed a field near us in Buchholz, there were immediately several starlings on the fresh topsoil. One of the starlings stood out a bit from the crowd of other birds. He was not looking for food and mostly walked up and down along the plow tracks with his head held high. I tried to approach the edge of the field slowly so as not to spook the birds. But, of course, they all flew up at first. So I moved to one corner of the field, perched on the edge of the field, and waited.

It was going to be worth it. Slowly the starlings moved back to the field. And also the starling came again. Only after the first shots with my telephoto lens I realized that he had his beak full of insects, centipedes and an earthworm, and held them proudly aloft. The best picture I managed to get was backlit, where the centipedes really shine. But the other two, where you can partly see flies around the bird, show the great coloring of the plumage. Even if there was just not the sun shining on the starlings.

Blue tit on inspection tour

by Marc 06/05/2021 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

This blue tit was visiting our rhododendron bush for some time. The cut branches are mostly used by tits to fly up to the nest box. The bush itself protects the approach very well and is so bare inside that even further distances inside the bush can be covered.

Here the blue tit looks up to the entrance of the nest box. Is the way too far? Can she reach it with a few flaps of her wings? The light comes appropriately from above for this photo, barely illuminating the background and only the blue tit’s bright head.

In the end, I guess it wasn’t so fitting, no tit family had moved into our nest box this spring. Too bad!

»Fashion show« of the Marsh Tit

by Marc 05/29/2021 | 6 IMAGES IN THE BLOGPOST | 3 Comments

I love these little tits when they come to us on the terrace to forage. This Marsh Tit has presented itself in front of me but really like on a fashion show.

See for yourself in the gallery of 6 pictures, how she showed herself from all sides:

Self confident blackbird cock

by Marc 05/26/2021 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

Self-confidently the blackbird cock sits on the branches of the apple tree at our place. He stretches his beak into the air as if no one could touch him.

Female blackbird

by Marc 05/23/2021 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

I prefer the birds in natural surroundings, blackbirds, for example, foraging in our flower beds or on the grassy areas around our house.

But when this blackbird lady presented herself so on the back of the chair, I gratefully took the motif. This shows off the beautiful brown shoulder and head plumage of the female blackbird. On the beak, you can still see the fine feathers that wrap around it like a beard. And in addition the yellow rimmed eye!

House sparrows at feeding place

by Marc 05/19/2021 | 2 IMAGES | No Comments

It was a slightly rainy day. I was once again sitting in my camouflage tent and was only about 2 meters away from our bird feeding place. At this time of day, almost exclusively house sparrows were frolicking at the feeder. The female jumped once on the edge, so I could capture it in full size. You should view this image in large — on a tablet or laptop/desktop monitor. Even a few raindrops stand out on the plumage.

With the male it was different. He was still eating a sunflower seed and you can even see his tongue in his open beak! Again, please open the picture also on a large monitor!

Long-tailed Tit

by Marc 05/16/2021 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

Before the beginning of the breeding season, I usually saw the long-tailed tits in pairs at our feeders. Unfortunately, I don’t know where they have been breeding now, because I don’t see them at all since a few weeks — but all the more the much smaller fir tits. This time, the long-tailed tit had taken up waiting position below the nut net in the rose. The picture shows so nicely that they have a scalloped yellow rim above the eye like an eyelid — I always think they have eyeshadow on!

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