Moments From Nature's Secrets

Sunday, May 18, 2025

Mikepércs: Treecreeper At The Pool

 The morning starts with blackbirds:

Blackbird (female)

Blackbird (male)

Blackbird (male)

I'm fiddling with the camera settings when a treecreeper appears suddenly! I'm trying to catch it but it's gone. What a nuisance... It won't return - I think to myself.

But a flycatcher comes:

Spotted Flycatcher

Then the creecreeper is here again! That's it!

Eurasion Treecreeper

The flycatcher returns, ...:

Spotted Flycatcher

... then the treecreeper comes back for a bath:

Eurasion Treecreeper

A blackcap comes as well:

Blackcap (male)

Blackcap (male)

Birds are active:

Chaffinch (female) and blackbird (male)

They don't like each other's company:

Hawfinch and chaffinch

Meanwhile a yellowhammer appears too:

Yellowhammer

The flycatcher returns many times to have a bath:

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher

Collared Dove

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher

Great Spotted Woodpecker (female)

Blackbird (female)

Spotted Flycatcher


Saturday, May 10, 2025

Saturday, May 3, 2025

Banat: La Văioaga Waterfall In Spring

3 years ago in autumn I photographed the La Văioaga waterfall in Banat, having no success with the Beușnița waterfall as it had no water. This time I thought maybe in spring there would be more water. Unfortunately it was almost dry this time too. La Văioaga however had as much water as in autumn:





Next day we had a short trip in the Retezat mountains:


 

Monday, April 21, 2025

Mikepércs: Some Surprises

The morning starts with a little surprise: Two hoopoes appear around the hide:

Hoopoe

Moreover, one of them even gets into the hide searching something around my feet, knocking my shoes... After a while it leaves.

Then comes another little surprise: a wood warbler:

Wood Warbler

It has a fast bath then get away.

But a blackbird lands as well:

Blackbird

The hawfinches come regularly to drink:

Hawfinch


Sunday, April 20, 2025

Mikepércs: April

 At the bathing pool again:

Goldfinch

The song thrushes are gathering material for their nest near the pool:

Song Thrush

Meanwhile a pair of hawfinches land to have some water:

Hawfinches

Song Thrush


Saturday, April 19, 2025

Mikepércs: What's New At The Pool?

It's the first time that I'm having a try at the bathing pool this year. A tree pipit appears at once and walks around the pool a few times:

 
Tree pipit

Tree pipit

Meanwhile a pied flycatcher lands:

Pied flycatcher

Tree pipit

Tree pipit

Then a song thrush appears:

Song thrush

In the spring I give a try with flowering twigs, last year it didn't work out but now I succeeded, a blackcap landed on it:

Male blackcap

Male blackcap