Warm and Stormy January Day – part II
This female Great Spotted Woodpecker (Buntspecht – Dendrocopos major) was going for food. She sat very close but behind some other sticks, so the photos are not perfect. But I was able to see how she got that fat maggot (3rd photo) and a photo with her tongue (4th photo). In case you haven’t seen that great post of Laura Erickson about bird tongues – go see it.
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Those photos give a little impression, on how windy it was.
Mandarin Duck (Mandarinenente – Aix galericulata) in the wind:
Black-headed Gull (Lachmöwe – Larus ridibundus) haning in the air:
The Lake Greifensee with waves
I also saw this female Northern Pintail (Spiessente – Anas acuta):
Mew Gull (Sturmmöwe – Larus canus)
Eurasian Chiffchaff (Zilpzalp – Phylloscopus collybita):
So many pretty photographs! Very cool shots of the woodpecker. I would love to see one of these.
[…] mid-January is reserved for the international waterfowl count (here is the link in German). The Saturday before the temperature was very mild. The weekend of the count it was raining or snowing all over […]
Looks like a fabulous place to do walk around and do some birding…