News · 21. Februar 2016
Another week has passed and sadly I didn´t have any time for birding. Looking on my schedule for the next weeks I definitely have to admit that I won´t have so much free time as until recently. I don´t know how exactly this lack of time will affect my birding activities, but it certainly has to be awaited that there will be less posts on average on this website. Nevertheless, this gives me time to address an important subject, which I wanted to feature much earlier. As you will for sure...
News · 12. Februar 2016
As mentioned yesterday I´ll come back to gulls. Finding interesting gulls in the inland is very tricky, especially because there are no major gull roosts, at least not in Franconia. However I found out that the harbour of Bamberg hosts a minor but occasionally interesting gull roost in the winter. Back in January I encountered some nice individuals there, even an immature Herring Gull, which is very rare here and for me the first of this age. Given the fact that I don´t see a lot of gulls,...
News · 11. Februar 2016
Looking through my photos from the last days I realized that there are a lot of new things which are worth to get mentioned here. First of all, I have a new scope since Tuesday, a Swarovski ATS 65 HD with a 25 - 50 x WW eyepiece. The last waterfowl count in January reminded me of the limits of my former spotting scope, a Nikon ED50. Before buying a scope I wanted to have a look through it at first and so I went all the way to Munich on Tuesday. So far I haven´t yet been able to test it...
News · 09. Februar 2016
Having absolutely no opportunity for birding at the moment, I decided rather to go through my notes of the Syrian Woodpecker, which I had taken last Saturday. Yes, I know, it´s the fourth post about this woodpecker in a row. However, I think that it is very important to pay more attention to the differentiation of Greater Spotted Woodpecker and Syrian Woodpecker. Both species look almost identical at first glance, though the identification is rather easy, when you know for what you should look...
News · 06. Februar 2016
What for a day! Today has been the first sunny day since almost a week and because I had a lot of free time this afternoon, I decided to visit the Syrian Woodpecker, once again. Unlike last week a lot of birders where searching the woodpecker, at first without success. However 45 minutes after my arrival I got the hoped-for phone call and I was told that the woodpecker was feeding in a backyard at that time. Soon afterwards I was standing along with several other birders at a fence enjoying my...