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Recent content by McHeath
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Feather identification (Bavaria/Germany)
Yes, that looks good. Thanks!- McHeath
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Feather identification (Bavaria/Germany)
Hi all! Could anyone help with the identification of these feathers please? I found them at the beginning of September near Morschreuth, Bavaria, Germany. They were lying within 100m of each other, just inside the margins of a mature mixed wood, mostly Beech but some conifers too. Hardly any...- McHeath
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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First Butterflies 2022
Saw my first two Brimstones of the year in Berlin yesterday :)- McHeath
- Post #33
- Forum: Butterflies and Moths
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Comment by 'McHeath' in media 'Bearded reedling'
Beautiful image of a beautiful bird - well done! :)- McHeath
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Comment by 'McHeath' in media 'water rail'
Hard enough to photograph one Water Rail; you got two at one go! Beautiful capture!- McHeath
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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
- Comments: 4
- 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
- Comments: 4
- 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
- Comments: 3
- Category: Britain & Europe
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Comment by 'McHeath' in media 'Lucky reflection capture.JPG'
I'd say that's a male Tufted Duck - nice photo!- McHeath
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Comment by 'McHeath' in media 'the dream'
Hmm ... looking to the future? I've never seen a picture of this before, and my first impression was of somebody sleeping, or dead, maybe mummified ...- McHeath
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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
- Comments: 3
- Category: Britain & Europe
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A Contortion of Cormorants
- McHeath
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- berlin germany great cormorant phalacrocorax carbo tegeler see
- Comments: 4
- Category: Britain & Europe
