A Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus or Haubentaucher in German) and its eight young on a little rock at Grundlsee in the evening haze after a rain shower in Styria, Austria.
Category Archives: birds
Chicken watching
A hen peers through patterned glass in a garden in Frankfurt
Heading South
Cranes are heading south as they fly over the Main valley near Frankfurt.
Still Life
A heron waits patiently for some careless fish to show up in the quiet floods of Lahn river in Wetzlar, some 60 kms (37 mls) north of Frankfurt.
Waiting for the Fish
A heron waits for fish, standing on a weir in the floods of Lahn river, a tributary to the Rhine, at Runkel.
Speakers’ Corner
Everybody listens when Number 2 speaks.
(In Offenbach, just outside Frankfurt, Feb.22.
Taken with a Sony 7rIII and SEL70-200 f4)
Flying Objects
Crows fly across the early morning sky in Frankfurt, Feb.11.
(Sony A7rIII, adapted Canon 100-400 II, 1/5sec, f5.6, iso800)
Oh, a leaf!
A heron stands by a pond near Frankfurt’s city center, Oct.9.
Night-Time Heron
A heron waits for prey on the bank of the river Main in downtown Frankfurt, Jan 23.
General Pigeon
General Pigeon inspects his troops in Speyer, southwestern Germany, July 1.
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