Post by photax on May 25, 2011 13:15:48 GMT -5
Hi !
Last Sunday I visited a nature reserve at the border to Hungary. It consists of a number of salty lakes, which will dry in summer. It was my third attempt to go there, the first time I had forgotten my telephoto ( what a shame !), the second time I had to turn halfway between because of a heavy thunder storm. Last weekend was perfect, sunshine, about 30°C and a colleague, who knows the names and details of all these migratory birds, came with me. I had to look up the translated names of the birds in the dictionary, I hope they are correct.
A Barn Swallow, a common bird elsewhere, the first I spied here.
Grey goose biplane
A Lapwing flying by
A formation of Sthingybills
Redshank
A Sthingybill looking for food
Two Black-winged Stilts, these guys are pretty fast !
I don’t know why this bird is called Little Egret, it is quite huge.
A Goose family shouting at the photographer
MIK
I just noticed that my translation for the white Ibis with the significant beak ihas ben automatically converted to "Sthingybill", which I suspect not makes sense...
Last Sunday I visited a nature reserve at the border to Hungary. It consists of a number of salty lakes, which will dry in summer. It was my third attempt to go there, the first time I had forgotten my telephoto ( what a shame !), the second time I had to turn halfway between because of a heavy thunder storm. Last weekend was perfect, sunshine, about 30°C and a colleague, who knows the names and details of all these migratory birds, came with me. I had to look up the translated names of the birds in the dictionary, I hope they are correct.
A Barn Swallow, a common bird elsewhere, the first I spied here.
Grey goose biplane
A Lapwing flying by
A formation of Sthingybills
Redshank
A Sthingybill looking for food
Two Black-winged Stilts, these guys are pretty fast !
I don’t know why this bird is called Little Egret, it is quite huge.
A Goose family shouting at the photographer
MIK
I just noticed that my translation for the white Ibis with the significant beak ihas ben automatically converted to "Sthingybill", which I suspect not makes sense...
. Here is another picture of a bird we could first not identify. My colleague sent it to an official bird watching organization and they said this is a real sensation, only a few of them are known in Austria and only one had been watched this year: It`s a Squacco Heron. Even a small lake can bear many secrets !
