In times of pandemic, the home garden must also be used for nature photography. We have a variety of garden birds around us, some also breed on our property and so it is always a pleasure when I get one … read more and write a comment …
Along the lower Seeve, the area Junkernfeld runs through the nature reserve. In summer the checkerboard flowers bloom here, but at the end of winter many parts of it are still flooded lake-like. Many waterfowl can be found there, like … read more and write a comment …
Days after the flooding of the fields along the Seeve, the foreland of the dike was partially flooded. The nature reserve Untere Seeveniederung is crossed by the Seeve (see the map at the end of this blog-post). The dike along … read more and write a comment …
Not after the snow melted, but after a day of extensive rainfall, I had set out for the area Untere Seeveniederung, about 30 km from home towards the river Elbe, because I just wanted to explore the Seeve and the … read more and write a comment …
At the edge of Steller Lake is a grazing area for highland cattle, which has been left somewhat overgrown and kept free of bushes by the cattle. As in the Serengeti by the wild animals living there, hence the freely … read more and write a comment …
By an Internet article of the district Harburg I had become attentive on the Steller lake in the nature reserve »Untere Seeveniederung«. The Steller lake lies in the winter evening hours properly in the shadow of the marshalling yard Maschen. … read more and write a comment …
Rarely do long-tailed tits visit our garden. In recent years, I had the pleasure of watching them once in the spring, when the branch tits roamed the neighbor’s garden. This year was different, the nut nets seem to attract the … read more and write a comment …
We have a bird feeder on our terrace and some wrought iron poles from which we like to hang nut nets. It is always nice to see how the blue tits look for their way to the food and slowly … read more and write a comment …
When the golden rays of the sun were still just shining over the summit of the Brunsberg, I was on the north side and found this tree trunk lying in the snow. Beautiful how the sun’s rays fall over a … read more and write a comment …
On the last wintry weekend in the Lüneburg Heath I had set out for the Brunsberg. I wanted to experience the golden light there on the snowy heath and capture it in photographs. When I was just on the open … read more and write a comment …
These days we have icy nights in the north of Germany again and I like to think back to the sunrise at ‑12 degrees © in the Tister Bauernmoor, which I was able to experience 2 weeks earlier. The difference … read more and write a comment …
The Tister Moor at ‑12 degrees, shortly after sunrise. All water surfaces were frozen, ice structures hung on the grasses, bushes and trees. The old tree stumps also made a great motif with a bit of snow and the ice flowers … read more and write a comment …