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Siskin
Siskins have an unusual migratory pattern, heading South in large numbers every few winters but remaining in others. I didn't know this and had been wondering where they'd all got to the last two years, but this year they came back with a vengeance in huge flocks, which delighted me...- McHeath
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- berlin germany siskin spinus spinus
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Goshawk
One of a pair which inhabits our local cemetery. They usually spot you long before you've spotted them and glide noiselessly away between the trees; this one stayed put for a minute or so and kept bobbing her head above the small branch to see if I was still there. Kind of reminded me of my...- McHeath
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- accipiter gentilis berlin germany northern goshawk
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Black Woodpecker
These birds are very shy and evasive here; during the whole of last year I only heard a few and saw one gliding away between the trees, despite running regularly in the woods where they live. So I was amazed to be there on a sunny day at the beginning of February and to see and hear no fewer...- McHeath
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- berlin black woodpecker dryocopus martius germany
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Grey Heron
A cold, windy, monochrome day on a cold, windy, monochrome lake ... and then this magnificent bird!- McHeath
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- ardea cinerea berlin germany grey heron tegeler see
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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A Contortion of Cormorants
- McHeath
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- berlin germany great cormorant phalacrocorax carbo tegeler see
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Winter Hawfinch
The cold spell has brought the Hawfinches down from the tops of the conifers, where they usually hang out, to check out the dilapidated but often regularly topped up bird tables hidden among the trees.- McHeath
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- berlin coccothraustes coccothraustes germany hawfinch
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Black-Headed Gull
- McHeath
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- berlin black-headed gull chroicocephalus ridibundus germany
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Happy Hoodie ...
... taking his time with the remains of a Black-Headed Gull (wings lower left, head lower right!)- McHeath
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- berlin germany hooded crow
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Lunch break
Found this guy mopping up birdseed in the cemetery at a tremendous rate; he stopped briefly to consider me and then carried on.- McHeath
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- berlin columba palumbus common wood pigeon germany
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Greater Spotted Woodpecker
We finally got a sunny day after weeks of clouds and rain; birds calling everywhere, and lovely to be out again and meet this guy.- McHeath
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- berlin dendrocopos major germany greater spotted woodpecker
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Damselflies
I didn't get the photo of the Marsh Tit I was hoping for (damn foliage ...), but these two were an unexpected consolation.- McHeath
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- berlin damselfly germany karower teiche
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- Category: Invertebrates
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House Sparrows
Members of a huge gang which could at this moment more appositely have been described as Hedge Sparrows ...- McHeath
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- berlin germany house sparrow passer domesticus
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Three's a crowd...
One Hoodie, one Carrion Crow and one Carrion/Hoodie hybrid ... not so much a good pic as an interesting comparison. Generally speaking, West Germany has the Carrion Crows and East Germany the Hoodies, but there's a broad hybrid belt between the two. The Carrion Crow is dominant in this one...- McHeath
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- berlin corvus corone/corvus cornix crow hybrid germany
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Long-Tailed Tit
A big flock of about 20 Long-Tailed Tits was rolling slowly but hectically and very vocally through the higher foliage; this guy was one of the few who stayed in one spot long enough to be photographed.- McHeath
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- aegithalos caudatus berlin germany long-tailed tit
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Eurasian Kestrel
The kestrels hadn't nested this year under the overhanging roof of the huge red brick water tower which used to supply a whole Berlin borough with water, so it was a nice surprise to see this one sitting on the perch in front of one of the nesting recesses.- McHeath
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- berlin eurasian kestrel falco tinnunculus germany
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Eurasian Jay
Enjoying the evening sun- McHeath
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- berlin eurasian jay garrulus glandarius germany
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Juvenile Robin
Going through some older photos and found this one, I love him!- McHeath
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- berlin erithacus rubecula germany juvenile robin
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Great White Egret
I spent three hours perched half way up a big willow tree yesterday. It was swaying considerably in the wind, and I was peering through my viewfinder on full zoom at a smaller willow some 100m away across the water, in which a Night Heron had been sighted perching for several hours each evening...- McHeath
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- ardea alba berlin germany great white egret moorlinse buch
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Sunbathing Blackbird
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- berlin blackbird germany turdus merula
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Grey Heron
Not a single fish in 45 min...- McHeath
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- ardea cinerea berlin germany grey heron
- Comments: 4
- Category: Britain & Europe
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Red Backed Shrike
- McHeath
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- berlin germany lanius collurio red backed shrike
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- Category: Britain & Europe
