Mikepércs: New Species At The Pool!

There's a big drought but if there is some water the birds will find it:

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher

Young Blue Tit

Blackcap (male)

The hoopoes use the burrows placed nearby at the beginning of spring:

Hoopoe

The young blue tits don't come alone:

Young Blue Tits

Young Blue Tit

Blackcap (male)

Blackcap (male)

Hoopoe

Blackcap (female)

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher

The first new species today is this lesser spotted woodpecker:

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

Hawfinch (male)

Hoopoe

Hoopoe

Another new species is this honey buzzard!

Honey Buzzard (male)

Honey Buzzard (male)

Honey Buzzard (male)

Honey Buzzard (male)

Honey Buzzard (male)

 

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

Mikepércs: Hoopoes Again

After the thunderstorm early in the afternoon today I could do some photography at the sandwall. I placed a landing branch for the hoopoes as well in case they would land there. 

First a bee-eater landed on the branch placed for them, but  it flew away after my first exposure: 

Bee-eater

Then two hoopoes appeared suddenly in front of me. Here's one of them:

Hoopoe

And here's the other one:

Hoopoe

I tried to compose them on a single photo with more and less success:

Hoopoes

They looked around then one of them perched on the bee-eaters' landing branch for a short time:

Hoopoe

After the hoopoes left a few bee-eaters were about to land too, but strangely they changed their mind in the last moment. This time I was pleased with the hoopoes, I hope they will come next time too.

Mikepércs: Instead Of Bee-eaters: Hoopoe

I planned a bee-eater photography for this afternoon. Unfortunately they didn't land in front of me. They used the trees nearby for perching. Instead the bee-eaters a young stonechat perched on the new landing branch:

Stonechat (female)

Then sparrows appeared in the grass hunting for insects. I hoped at least one of them would settle on the branch, but I had no luck with them either. I didn't trust in the hoopoes wich were quite active nearby, they were probing the sandy soil, many times quite close to my hide. I was about to pack and leave after such a long unsuccessful waiting when one of the hoopoes appeared suddebly on the landing branch:

Hoopoe

It made me very happy as this was the first useful photo of them. I could hardly believe it!