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Common sandpiper - chevalier guignette - Flussuferläufer - Uferleefer |
Canada geese |
Dragonflies - red and blue |
Tufted duck story |
Common tern - sterne pierregarin - Flussseeschwalbe - Flossséischmuewel - Sterna hirundo |
Barber's brush in bloom |
Common Tern and White Wagtail |
Great Reed Warbler - rousserole turdoïde - Drosselrohrsänger - Grousse Jäizert |
Disciplined swan family outing |
Partly submerged treetrunks and their reflections |
Dragonfly |
Dragonfly |
Dragonfly |
Crested grebe family with fresh fish for dinner |
Crested grebe mum taking the little ones on an expedition |
Proud parents |
Fresh supplies arriving |
Common tern - sterne pierregarin - Flussseeschwalbe - Flossséischmuewel |
Dragonfly |
Frog |
Oxeye daisy |
Grey heron - héron cendré - Graureiher - Groreeër |
Grey heron taking his prey to the larder |
Swan family |
Swan family outing |
Swan family outing |
Swan family outing |
Young cormorant |
White wagtail - bergeronnette grise - Bachstelze - Panewippchen |
White wagtail - bergeronnette grise - Bachstelze - Panewippchen |
White wagtail - bergeronnette grise - Bachstelze - Panewippchen |
Dandelion nearly all gone |
Common tern - sterne pierregarin - Flussseeschwalbe - Flossséischmuewel |
Mallard getting onto that floating platform |
Blackbird - merle noir - Amsel - Märel |
Nesting crested grebe |
Swan and Canada goose |
Baby coots |
Coot with some of her brood |
Reeds in the evening sun |
Chaffinch - Pinson des arbres - Buchfink - Poufank |
Crested grebe - grèbe huppé - Haubentaucher - Hauwendaucher - getting those feathers sorted |
New beginnings |
Grey heron - héron cendré - Graureiher - Groreeër - so long |
Grey heron - héron cendré - Graureiher - Groreeër - trying to find his next meal |
Northern shoveler - canard souchet - Löffelente - Läffelint |
Sparrow singing his heart out |
White wagtail - bergeronnette grise - Bachstelze - Panewippchen |
White wagtail - bergeronnette grise - Bachstelze - Panewippchen |
Canada geese outing |
Great crested grebe - grèbe huppé - Haubentaucher - Hauwendaucher |
Great tit - mésange charbonnière - Kohlmeise - Schielmees |
Grey heron with green-winged teal |
Grey heron with common moorhen |
White wagtail - bergeronnette grise - Bachstelze - Panewippchen |
Robin |
Canada geese in flight |
Canada geese in flight |
Synchronized Canada geese |
Swan |
Egyptian geese observing a tern |
Greylag goose - oie cendrée - Graugans - Grogäns |
Tufted duck - fuligule morillon - Reiherente - Reeërint |
Mallard ducks |
Perching cormorant |
White wagtail - bergeronnette grise - Bachstelze - Panewippchen |
Courting must not make you forget your meals |
Reflections |
Grey heron on the lookout for lunch |
Looking for that fish |
Found the fish |
Swan upsetting goose |
Goose about to fly off |
Away |
Greylag goose being chased by a swan |
Need to get away |
No peace for that goose |
Goose chased by swan in a foul mood |
Geese being set upon by a swan |
Greylag goose - Oie cendrée - Graugans |
Swan |
Secluded |
When you feel you've had enough |
Spring clean |
Being propelled by the wind |
Crested grebes taking a liking to each other |
Crested grebes sporting interesting plumage styles |
New style front and back |
Start of spring |
Song thrush - grive musicienne - Singdrossel - Dréischel |
Tufted duck - canard touffeté - Reiherente |
Crested grebe - grèbe huppé - Haubentaucher |
Crested grebe - grèbe huppé - Haubentaucher |
The setting sun |
Reflections on a quiet late November day |
Mallard ducks in liquid gold |
Crested grebe looking alert |
Crested grebe in tranquil waters |
Coot wondering who created all those circles in the water |
Heron - as I was going to say ... |
With the world in such a sorry state this is perhaps the best posture to adopt. |
Gold and bronze |
Dusk |
Swan |
Grey heron and cormorants |
One final reunion to round up the day and off to sleep |
Cormorant assembly |
A busy time - fishing - grooming - exploring |
Now listen all - there is something I have got to say |
Canada goose getting ready for take-off |
Cormorants grow on this tree |
Canada geese - ladies and gentlemen |
Coot having a good look at himself |
The day's last sunrays on the ripples in the water |
Perch in shallow water |
Two cormorants sharing a joke while all the others are looking elsewhere |
Crested grebe |
Crested grebe showing off its head plumage |
View over the bird sanctuary |
Swans asleep |
Swan unfolding himself as he wakes up |
Egyptian geese gathering |
Egyptian geese and Canada geese |
Gray heron in fairly deep waters |
Gray heron intent on getting his breakfast organized |
Heron hiding beneath the reeds |
Mist lifting as a new day starts at the bird sanctuary |
Anything wrong with your feathers? |
Geese in a box |
One Egyptian goose looking rather determined |
A busy time among the cormorants under heron supervision |
Looks like a few cormorants being rebuked by the heron |
Coot having created its own whirlpool |
So long as you eat your greens |
Swan admiring its reflection |
The only one left on the tree |
Bird feed |
Weeds and algae |
The bid sanctuary with autumnal colours |
Reeds in an autumn scene |
Splash of red amid a lot of green |
Two swans |
Biodiversum Nature Information Centre |
Canada geese supervised by a cormorant perched on the pole |
Perching cormorant |
View across the bird sanctuary |
Mushrooms |
Grey heron and a flock of cormorants |
Great egret and cormorants |
Cormorant leaving the flock |
Great egret grey heron cormorants and Egyptian geese |
Great egret preparing for take off |
Great egret nearly off now |
Great egret some adjustments before we are quite ready |
Egyptian goose acting as air traffic controller |
Coot with no red eye removal |
Birds |
Birds |
Birds |
Before the vines drop their leaves |
Apples too high up in the tree |
Beautiful late autumn day at the bird sanctuary |
Time to settle down for the night |
Biodiversum information centre in the late afternoon |
Cormorant catching the day's last sunrays |
Grey heron looking out for fish |
Heron in flight |
Heron spreading its wings |
Heron thinking about its next move |
Heron enjoying the view from up high |
Egyptian geese practising yoga |
Heron rethinking his teaching methods amon his cormorants |
Swan coming down with a splash |
A wintry atmosphere as one cormorant is hanging out to dry |
Late afternoon sunrays with the partially frozen pond |
Rustling as the reeds are frozen |
Soon it'll be time to turn in for the night. |
Not much left of the day now |
Late autumn gold |
Greylag geese going somewhere |
Great tit checking the spring buds |
Robin |
Chiffchaff - pouillot véloce - Zilpzalp - Zillzapp |
Submerged |
Tufted duck stretching its wings |
Vicious swan making that goose's life difficult |
Another attack on that poor greylag goose |
Blackcap - fauvette à tête noire - Mönchsgrasmücke - Schwaarz Graatsch |
Great tit - mésange charbonnière - Kohlmeise - Schielmees |
Grey heron ignoring a sulking great egret |
Great egret with Canada goose |
Submerged tree stump producing new growth |
Great white egret wandering off |
Unsuccessful fishing expedition |
Little bittern - blongios nain - Zwergdommel -Kleng Dommel - Ixobrychus minutus |
Just before grape picking starts |
Biodiversum in the late afternoon on a bright autumn day |
Vineyards |
Getting late |
Goose - how do you like my new coat? |
Juvenile crested grebe |
Young crested grebe watching mummy disappear |
Crested grebe adult and young |
Back to school - autumn assembly |
Swan not happy at having to share the path with humans |
Robin in autumn |
Geese going somewhere |
Crested grebe in the evening sun |
The colours of autumn |
Great white egret in search of dinner |