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Showing posts with label Great Tit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Tit. Show all posts

Saturday, May 31, 2025

Mikepércs: The Activity Continues At The Pool

The photos taken last time at the pool made me happy, so I'm sitting in the hide this morning again. And the birds don't let me down this time either:

Spotted Flycatcher

Young Hawfinch

Nuthatch

Starling

Starling

Young Hawfinch

Young Hawfinch

Starling

Blackcap and Chaffinch

Great Tit and Chaffinch

Great Tit and Chaffinch

Blackcap (male)

Chiffchaff

Chiffchaff

Hawfinch (male)

Nuthatch

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Sunday, June 4, 2023

Mikepércs: Youngs

Today the young tits appeared at the pool:

Young Blue Tits

Young Blue Tits

Young Great Tit

Great Tit

Later a wood-pigeon landed to drink:

Wood-pigeon


Saturday, April 22, 2023

Mikepércs: Hawfinches

 

Today I have to wait long as well for the birds:

Great Tit

A jay arrives at the "bath":

Jay

It's bathing intensively:

Jay

A blackcap arrives too:

Blackcap (male)

Then the hawfinches appear:

Hawfinch (male)

Hawfinch (female)

Hawfinch (female)

Hawfinch (female)

Hawfinch (female)

Hawfinch (female)

Finally, a female blackcap has a bath too:

Blackcap (female)


Sunday, April 16, 2023

Mikepércs: They Start To Come

Birds don't really want to come to the pool. There are long tailed tits, a wren is always there around the hide, a robin appears sometimes as well but I couldn't take a decent shot of them. Today the birds appear only late in the morning at the water:

Hawfinch (female)

Chaffinch (male)

Chaffinch (male)

Chaffinch (male)

Great Tit


Sunday, May 22, 2022

Mikepércs: Chiffchaff

It's a sunny morning. I'm struggling with the strong light. The birds are coming to have a bath one after the other: spotted flycatcher, jay, ...:

Jay

... starlings, ...:
Starling

... blackcaps, then a chiffchaff has a long bath, shaking off the water from itself on the landing twig nearby after that, then returns to the pool:

Chiffchaff

Chiffchaff

Chiffchaff

It's repeating this procedure again.
Fortunately there are soft lights as well:

Great Tit

Blackcap


Sunday, April 24, 2022

Big Activity At The Pool

This morning I got into the hide at the pool with high hopes. I didn't have to wait long as I soon heard then caught sight of the first surprise on a branch: A male collard flycatcher! It landed on the side of the pool but left at once. What a pity!

A male blackbird was the first successful theme today:

Blackbird (male)

Then the second pleasant surprise appeared: a wood warbler started to search an appropriate place for bathing, ...:

Wood Warbler

Wood Warbler

Wood Warbler

... and it did find it:

Wood Warbler

Evidently it really enjoyed dabbling:

Wood Warbler

The blackbird again:

Blackbird (male)

Then a pied flycatcher landed at the end of the pool! 

Pied flycatcher (male)

He had a bath as well:

Pied flycatcher (male)

Pied flycatcher (male)

Pied flycatcher (male)

Pied flycatcher (male)

Pied flycatcher (male)

Finally the collard appeared too:

Collared flycatcher (male)

It didn't stay longer I'm afraid but I managed to record it!

A tit had a thorough bath too:

Great Tit

Great Tit

Great Tit

The third surprise is a green woodpecker:

Green Woodpecker

It landed at the same time like a jay at the side of the pool, they didn't like each other's company:

Jay

The green woodpecker searched even for some food at the side of the pool:

Green Woodpecker

Green Woodpecker

The wood warbler appeared again, this time I managed to catch it in the air ...:

Wood Warbler

... just like this spotted flycatcher:

Spotted Flycatcher

Another bath from the part of the warbler ...:

Wood Warbler

Wood Warbler

Wood Warbler

... then from the part of the flycatcher:

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher