A little birding done on a recent trip to Japan:

Long-tailed tit, Brown-eared bulbul (+ lunch), Warbling white-eye, Red-billed leiothrix (invasive)

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Nice! My contribution: Japanese pygmy woodpecker

Kingfisher

Eurasian chaffinch

Middle spotted woodpecker

Grey heron

Schlosspark Laxenburg is a great place for #birding #birds #wildlifephotography

Great crested grebe in nice evening light on a calm day. Captured like this at the Wienerwaldsee west of Vienna/Austria

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Grey heron on the prowl. Was quite interesting to see it go after a fish in deep water.

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Eurasien Hoopoe

Two female and one male Red-footed falcon

Great Bustard

Family of Greylag Geese

Four days of bird watching in the Neusiedler See - Seewinkel National Park, Austria with great weather and 72 amazing bird species to be admired.
What a great way of spending time.

Thanks to @phm0.bsky.social for taking the phenomenal photos ❤️
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Meadow orchard with blooming fruit trees

Analyzing a vast amount of audiodata collected with AudioMoth in meadow orchards in the project DivMoSt. We are already curious to see, if and how the data collected by field workers differ from species lists created with BirdNET
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Greylag goose

Greylag goose

Black woodpecker

Some spring bird pictures from Laxenburg, south of Vienna/Austria.

Was nice seeing some young goslings diligently following their parents 🐥😊

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Great crested grebes flirting a little on a lake close to Vienna/Austria.

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Marsh tit

Marsh tit

Great tit

Blue tit

Marsh, great and blue tit, as seen on a walk near Vienna/Austria. The latter two are quite common, but still fun to photograph 😊

Some more Crested tit images from last weekend. Taken in Bad Vöslau/Austria with a Nikon Z8 and Z 800mm f6.3 wide open, 1/1000s.

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The one on the left is a long-tailed tit.

Long-tailed tit

Blue tit

Crested tit

Three different kinds of tits. Seen in Bad Vöslau/Austria
Had some wonderful soft evening light 😊

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Great cormorant

Pygmy cormorant

Great and pygmy cormorants, as seen along the Danube east of Vienna/Austria.

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Indeed, the universal Nuthatch L 😄

Some more Tufted ducks! Love their yellow eyes and little tufts 😊

Need moar fish 😄

Tree creeper doing tree creeper things

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Got to see an Eastern imperial eagle along the danube east of Vienna/Austria

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Ducks: Eurasian wigeon, Tufted ducks and Gadwall

A ducking cold day in Laxenburg / Austria.

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Somewhat plain but still beautiful in the right light/environment: Tufted ducks 😊

Seen like this in Laxenburg south of Vienna/Austria

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I love the bright yellow eyes of these guys 😊

yep, i would assume female and male Common mergansers

Blue jay

Eurasian jay

Just became aware of #ThursJay so here is a blue one from Central park in NY and a european relative 😅

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Eurasian blue tit

Blue tits can be really photogenic 😊

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European green woodpecker

Middle spotted woodpecker

Black woodpecker

Saw a lot of woodpeckers in Laxenburg with @evaschoell.bsky.social

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Birding in the National Park Donau Auen, Austria. Enjoying #nature, #birds and silence with
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Ground squirrel having a snack near Wiener Neustadt, Austria

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