Breeders Breeding Ducks 
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2022
A few Eurasian Tree Sparrows land by my car as I am scanning for Purple and Squacco Herons , Pygmy Cormorants and Black-necked Grebes in their brilliant breeding plumage. The main reason was the Ferruginous Duck which duly showed up, but to my surprise, followed by a kettle of two dozen Whiskered Terns… Wait!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2011
Over the next few days, the Alpine Accentors ( Prunella collaris ) will arrive on their high-Alpine breeding grounds – it is time to start singing, despite that the treeless Alpine landscape is still under metres of snow. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2022
Heine (1840-1920) was a German ornithologist, agronomist, and plant-breeder and unfortunately not related to the substantially more famous German writer Heinrich Heine, which will not keep me from quoting the latter: “The more I get to know people, the more I like dogs.”
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2011
If you look for ducks in summer or warblers in winter, you’re very likely to be disappointed. Unless you’re a big fan of your local breeding birds, you’ll find that this is the most boring time of the birding year. Consult the Calendar Timing is everything. Get serious… birds are everywhere.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 7, 2011
They are the first of our migrant breeders to go, and they are gone by the beginning of August. Winter has ducks and gulls and finches. The theatre of the evening sky that soothes the mind and brings to rest the hot summer days is over. The Common Swifts have left Germany behind as their journey South has begun. That is early.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2014
This is similar to the fact that all birds, even first time breeders within a species build identical nests. Interestingly some of these ponds are favored by these herons for foraging and have ducks that are fed by people. Just a bit of ingenuity can make a big difference for these herons and their progeny if they are breeding.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2013
Being technically outside the summer tourism season, one can enjoy the somewhat less expensive travel and hotel costs, less crowded venues, great weather and nearly endless daylight—and of course many birds migrating and beginning the breeding/nesting season! There you will find more breeding terns, gulls and dozens of Graylag Geese.
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