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[Click]

Great shots, ERHP.

 

[candyman]

Eurasian female sparrowhawk

Taking a bath (photos taken from a bird hide)

R6
EF100-400 II

1/200 (1/250) f/5, iso 1000 (800)

 

[Click]

Nicely done, candyman.

 

[Maximilian]

First Reed Warbler of the year. Sheer luck I was in just the right position to catch him for a second or two, unobscured. (R5ii + 200-800mm).

Beautiful pose!

 

[Maximilian]

I am not 100% sure but I believe this is a yellow-browed warbler.

Difficult one for me to see. It also looks like a Chiffchaff.

Another vote for a chiffchaff.

 

[Maximilian]

This is the only time I got the black woodpecker in front of the camera.

I never got any. I only hear them calling in our forrest. I feel happy with you.

 

[Maximilian]

Female blackcap.
IMO blackcaps have the most beautiful song here with me, followed by wrens and robins.

 

[Maximilian]

When I took photos of this chiffchaff I was happy that it was posing so nicely for me.
When I got home and looked at the first bunch of photos, I was shocked, because I thought it had lost its right eye.


Luckily, only the eyelids were closed.

 

[Click]

Very nice series, Maximilian.

 

[Maximilian]

Thanks, Click

 

[Maximilian]

First family of Canada geese.
Just two goslings. Unusually few.
(BTW: The greylag geese have already lost 2 of their 6 goslings )
The adults' pose is a threat gesture against another couple of Canada geese.

 

[AlanF]

Great Crested Grebe on floating nest (taken from bird hide at a distance, and GCGs are not scared off nests any way). She got up to reveal the eggs under her. (1st shot by my wife with the R7 + RF 100-400 (cropped), the second two with the RF 5ii + 200-800mm, heavily cropped as usual).

 

[Click]

I especially like the second one. Nicely done.

 

[AlanF]

I especially like the second one. Nicely done.

The first one is to show where the nest is in the water and the nesting habitat. This is the first time I have seen a floating nest - in the past I have seen them just on the edge of the shore.

 

[Maximilian]

Great Crested Grebe on floating nest (taken from bird hide at a distance, and GCGs are not scared off nests any way). She got up to reveal the eggs under her. (1st shot by my wife with the R7 + RF 100-400 (cropped), the second two with the RF 5ii + 200-800mm, heavily cropped as usual).

Great catch from you and your wife, Alan.
I really like the 2nd, where I can see the eggs so well.

 

[Maximilian]

Mirror, mirror in the water, who is the fairest one of ardeae alter?

Last photos of the egrets so far. As every spring, they've left my local ponds now.
And no, it didn't hunt anything. I was waiting eagerly 15 min long

 

[Click]

It's always difficult with white feathers, nicely done.

 

[AlanF]

Grey Wagtails catching insects for their chicks.

 

[Click]

Excellent series, Alan.

 

[AlanF]

I'm not sure whether these should be in this thread or "Assorted insects". Oh the wonders of using the 200-800 on a 45 Mpx sensor.