Mikepércs: Haze At Dawn

Some haze has formed again this morning at the pond. A pochard is the first to come in front of me:

Pochard (male)

Soon a red-necked grebe appears too:

Red-necked grebe

As the sun rises the lights are getting better and better:

Pochard (male)

Pochard (male)

Turning towards the sun the hazy water surface looks nice especially when there's a bird in the image:

Red-necked grebe

Pochard (male)

Pochard (male)

A pochard starts bathing but the haze is disappearing by this time:

Pochard (male)

Pochard (male)

Pochard (male)

Pochard (male)

The red-necked grebe appears again flapping its wings ...:

Red-necked grebe

Red-necked grebe

Red-necked grebe

Red-necked grebe

... then shaking itself:

Red-necked grebe

Red-necked grebe

Pochard (male)

Preening:

Pochard (male)

Pochard (male)

Pochard (male)

Garganeys arrive with pale feathers, one of them starts an intensive bath:

Garganey (male)

Garganey (male)

Garganey (male)

Mikepércs: Something Is Missing

Early in the morning there is some haze above the water. The usual pochards and garganeys are coming slowly but a little grebe is showing itself as well.

A female pochard comes close munching a bit on the leaves of a water plant:

Pochard (female)

A little grebe pops up from among the water plants and finds something to pick from the leaves:

Little grebe

A pochard is approaching, ...:

Pochard (male)

... then a coot is shaking itself:

Coot

Pochard (male)

A garganey is flapping its wings after some preening:

Garganey (male)

Garganey (male)

Garganey (male)

 Unfortunately the red-necked grebes are missing from the pond, I'm afraid they might have gone away. We'll see ...

Mikepércs: Greylag Geese

I run for the red-necked grebe again. The sun has risen already when a pair of greylag geese are approaching towards the hide. They are leading the goslings. Unfortunately they are swimming behind the hide to a place where the water is rich in plants. After a while another couple is coming, they are leading two goslings:

Grey-lag Goose

Grey-lag Goose

The lights are nice but there are few birds nearby and no red-necked grebe. This resting garganey is an exception, it is close enough:

Garganey (male)

Mikepércs: Fog Again

I hoped for some fog for this morning after having some rainy days. However when I got up the stars were shining brightly, only the western part of the sky was cloudy.

So, I had a rest in the hide resigning myself that there won't be any fog this morning. But when I'm looking up after half an hour, I can see quite a thick fog in front of me. Only the birds are yet to come. I don't have to wait long for them, as a couple of garganeys are landing and coming closer, where their legs reach the pond bed:

Garganey (male)

After a some time they leave:

Garganey (male)

Soon stilts and avocets appear. But a lapwing lands too.
As I notice, there are two couples of avocets in the area, they pass in front of the hide several times:

Avocet

Avocet

The redshank couple is in the area as well, one of them comes closer:

Redshank

Black-winged Stilt

Meanwhile I can hear black-headed gulls approaching, they land but can't be seen well because of the fog. And they don't stay long.
Soon a redshank is having a bath nearby, ...:

Redshank

Redshank

Redshank

... then it starts preening:

Redshank

Redshank

Redshank

Redshank

Redshank

Redshank

Redshank

Redshank

Redshank

Redshank

Black-winged Stilt

Meanwhile a few terns arrive.
The stilts stay nearby all time, and I notice that they have a nest in the rare vegetation, as one of them is sitting on it for a while.
Meanwhile a ruff turns up too:

Ruff (female)

Ruff (female)

The terns are flying above the water for quite a long time, ...:

Whiskered Tern

... and picking insects from the surface. I'm trying hard to catch them during this activity, however it's not simple:

Whiskered Tern

Whiskered Tern

I can see the stilts mating again, but this time they are close to the vegetation, so I can't take decent shots of them.

Black-winged Stilt

Black-winged Stilt

Black-winged Stilt

Black-winged Stilt

The lapwing lands again, this time accompanied by another one:

Lapwing

As the sun gets higher, the air is clearing, but the dewy cobwebs show how hazy the air was at dawn:

Black-winged Stilt