Photos of July
The month of July is almost over now and, apart from some sunny days, the summer was pretty awful until now. This is why I didn’t take that many photos as I usually do. I … Read more
Posts in Category ‘Birding’
The Storks Family – Aviation school
As every year we have a stork family living around the corner. And this year all three chicks the storks couple raised survived. It’s a little surprising due to the bad weather we had this … Read more
The Hateful Five
Sorry guys, this is not a teaser for the new Tarantino movie. But you can stay anyway if you like. 🙂 The hateful five in front of our doorstep are huge, white and loud. There … Read more
Winter in Northern Germany
It’s winter again in Northern Germany! My actual plan was to watch out for the King fisher, to continue my personal photo challenge. But since it makes no sense to sit around at a frozen … Read more
Squirrel paradise: The Ohlsdorf cemetery
I hope you all had a great Christmas time! To be honest I am happy that it’s over now. To much food and Christmas stress 🙂 Yesterday we spent the day in Hamburg. While Anna … Read more
The Kingfisher photo challenge
The truth Actually the title doesn’t describe it very well. A better title would have been: Sitting around at a small pond for five hours and waiting for a common Kingfisher to come around. But … Read more
Office bird-watching in Hamburg
When days are warm, the window in my office is always open. Besides lots of traffic noise and sometimes explosions (the German “TÜV”, right next to my office, sometimes blows anything up) I can also … Read more
Pietzmoor: In the peatland
Some days ago, while browsing through one of our local rags, we found an article about cotton grass which is blooming in the Pietzmoor peatlands not far from here. And since there is also a … Read more
One week – many photos
Sometimes there are weeks where I don’t even touch my camera. I just don’t have any inspiration what to shoot. But during the last weeks I went out quite often to take some photos. It … Read more
Bird is the word!
Saturday morning 6 am . Normally I would turn around once again, wrapped in my blanket, cosily in my bed. Not so yesterday. Since Anna had to leave for a business trip early, and the … Read more