Wild Birds of Europe

[Levina de Ruijter]

Ruddy turnstone in it's element:
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Nice ones, Patrick. Love the habitat. Makes me think of my childhood in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen.

 

[pcs]

Nice ones, Patrick. Love the habitat. Makes me think of my childhood in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen.

You can see the 'overkant' here(and as there are (small) birds on the shore-line I can show it here), 200 meters further on.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

You can see the 'overkant' here(and as there are (small) birds on the shore-line I can show it here), 200 meters further on.
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Cool. I grew up in a section of Terneuzen that was actually outside of it and the Westerschelde was basically at the end of our street so I spent a lot of time there as a young child. And when I say "street" it was just in a manner of speaking. It was an old dyke with cobblestones, old cottages, an occasional pigsty (for one pig), and totally isolated from the world. It doesn't exist any more. We moved to a new house when I was 5 but still went to the water often. Can't see the "overkant" there of course.

 

[Jan1977]

A magpie in flight:

 

[Jan1977]

 

[Lyn2011]

We went one evening when the weather was really beautiful (didn't happen often) to the "Blauwe Kamer" a nature reserve close to Wageningen (Netherlands). There were many waterbirds, here the Greylag geese, and Spoonbills.

 

[Lyn2011]

More Greylag Geese and a white Goose

 

[pcs]

Spotted redshank:

 

[pcs]

More Greylag Geese and a Snowgoose (?)

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More likely leucism or escaped domestic white goose.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

We went one evening when the weather was really beautiful (didn't happen often) to the "Blauwe Kamer" a nature reserve close to Wageningen (Netherlands). There were many waterbirds, here the Greylag geese, and Spoonbills.

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I read they have a large number of spoonbills there. I’ve never seen more than a couple together. Nice, Lyn.

Although it’s not impossible I too doubt the white goose is a snow goose.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Spotted redshank:
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Nice! He really does have spots!

 

[sidknee]

Spotted redshank:
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Judging from your recent shots the R5mkII is doing a good job with you at the helm

 

[Jan1977]

A whinchat:

 

[sidknee]

It's been generally rainy here for the last week, a damp juvenile

DSC03730--2024-09-25--16 by Sid Simmons, on Flickr

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

It's been generally rainy here for the last week, a damp juvenile

Rainy you say? Here's a shot from a few days ago when it just never stopped raining. A shot for the record. He was too far away and this is a big crop but it shows the rain very well.

Although if I got to choose, I would take your bird over this one any day, rain or not... Great shot, by the way, Sid.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

And I had this guy fly by my window. He too was too far away and this is a huge crop. But pretty cool to have captured him at all. He did a few fly by's. If only he'd been closer.

 

[Lyn2011]

More likely leucism or escaped domestic white goose.

I read they have a large number of spoonbills there. I’ve never seen more than a couple together. Nice, Lyn.

Although it’s not impossible I too doubt the white goose is a snow goose.

Thanks Patrick and Levina. I'll change it to "white goose".

 

[macstory]

Female Goosander (Mergus merganser)
(Lens: Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

 

[pcs]

It's been generally rainy here for the last week, a damp juvenile

DSC03730--2024-09-25--16 by Sid Simmons, on Flickr

Looks like our weather but without those beautiful birds.

 

[pcs]

And I had this guy fly by my window. He too was too far away and this is a huge crop. But pretty cool to have captured him at all. He did a few fly by's. If only he'd been closer.
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Even capturing a Jay is difficult here so in flight even better!