*Birdwatching*
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Hume's Leaf Warbler at Compton Dando Sewage Treatment Plant. A gem of a bird and site as well with over 10 species of bird present!
He loves to sit there watching the birds in the neibouring garden...
Bastian (mixed breed), 13.01.2022
Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera
Female Sparrowhawk which perched obligingly for 20 mins outside the Estuary Tower at Slimbridge WWT!
Perdiz-comum, Red-legged Partridge (Alectoris rufa)
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Tecelão-de-cabeça-preta, Black-headed Weaver (Ploceus melanocephalus)
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Oil painting style
Behavior of these birds:
Probes into sand or mud with its long bill for aquatic invertebrates. Sometimes walks while probing or takes a few steps before burying its bill into the mud. Social outside of the breeding season; forages in groups and also with Willets, Whimbrels, and Long-billed Curlews.
source: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Marbled_Godwit/id
seen on the sim: Endless: Permafrost, Haraiki Bay
flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/permafrost/
Polluelo de Flamenco (Phoenicopterus roseus, Pallas, 1811) en las Salinas de San Pedro en un dia gris de invierno.
Female Sparrowhawk which perched obligingly for 20 mins outside the Estuary Tower at Slimbridge WWT!
A male Montagu's harrier on a stone perch.
Montagu’s Harrier is named after the naturalist George Montagu, who is also known for writing the Ornithological Dictionary in 1802. Measuring between 43 and 47 cm, the adult male of the species is a stunning dark grey with black edges on its wings. It also sports rufous (reddish-brown) streaking on its belly, which is one of the ways by which it can be differentiated from the pallid harrier.
They feed primarily on grasshoppers, locusts and other insects, as well as reptiles, rodents, and other small mammals. Following the migratory path of locusts and grasshoppers, Montagu’s harriers were once one of the most common harriers to winter on the Indian subcontinent. This is less and less so as their favourite grassland habitats diminish.
Abutre-do-egipto ou Britango, Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus)
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Northern Bald Ibis
The name of this specimen is "El comandante" and is equipped with a GPS device as the species is the subject of a reintroduction project.
I usually let Vas'ka out only after he had a good breakfast and hope he is watching birds only for artistic reasons :-)
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.. while birdwatching all around this area.. end of the day with the view of sunflowers flowering at its best.