Ivan Nemec

A brown and white osprey is standing on tippytoes in a defensive posture with its wings spread wide and its head feathers sticking out and its beak open. It is on a large nest made of sticks, and is facing toward an unseen assailant flying in from the upper right.

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #WingsOpenNotFlying (birds with wings open but not flying) we have an Osprey who was quite upset and put on an impressive threat display when a rival osprey came too close to its nest. Eventually there was a brief mid-air tussle.

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Beautiful capture 👍

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Close to Olomouc, Czechia

Great tit - Wikipedia

Thank you, it should be the great tit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_tit

It looks a bit weird because pics were taken during harsh noon light

Today’s #Birdoftheday theme is #Sideprofiles chosen by Rob Crank. This is my contribution, taken yesterday

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Accidental Camouflage.

Local wildlife on an (almost) Martian landscape

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Spring is finally here, and it’s getting easier to catch some action. This woodpecker was chased off by a rival.

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The grebe was moving from one side of the river to the other like this. During the hour or so, it repeated the movement 3 times so I had a chance to get ready to capture it. And it was really fast, I think the exposure time was 1/3200 s (I’m not on my PC right now where I can check the exact info).

I had to wait an hour after work, so I went to the river. The light was poor with sunset approaching, but I managed my closest shot yet of a flying little grebe. A common merganser and a grey wagtail showed up too.

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Actually, treecreepers are my favourite birds because they are easy to find but hard to photograph well, as they are constantly on the move. Recently, I got lucky a bit

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Nuthatch, long‑tailed tit, and blue tit from today’s lunch‑break walk.

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Recently we struggled a bit with getting #goodlight for bird photography. So at least here is my contribution from this morning: a shot of a collared dove.
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Yesterday’s walk brought, besides the usual suspects like yellowhammers, wrens, and robins, also a group of siskins (here’s one feeding on alder cones) and even a corn bunting sitting in the budding branches, quite a rare sight here.

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Squirrel

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We currently have mudstorm, i guess it is not a proper word, but it is what it is 😬 we had three weeks of winter (much more than usually) and before that month of mist and rain. Now, snow is gone and mud is everywhere..anyway, enjoy winter!

Thank you, it was quite a hunt :)

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Yesterday’s weather was quite demanding, and the mix of snow and rain really tested my decision to switch to the well‑sealed OM system equipment. Here’s a nuthatch in its typical pose, watching the snowfall. Anyway, winter seems to be over here in Czechia.

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Thank you! I spent quite a bit of time figuring out where this bird was. It kept moving erratically along the ditch and finally hid in the rose branches. The only way to get a clear view was to lie down in the mud :) The photo was taken at 800 mm FF equivalent, so it was shot from quite a distance.

😃 i got one, she hates cold though, so usually i go for my photo hikes alone. Then, i took her and our dogs out for shorter, more dynamic walks

Thank you! After I came back home, my daughter took me out skating at the local open ice rink, and the movement helped, at least until heavy rain started about ten minutes before the end 😁

Sometimes the story behind the photo is better than the photo itself. In thick snowfall, I lay on a wet road, camera aimed into a ditch tangled with wild roses, hoping the shot of a tiny wren would be worth the cold. This one made the cut, one keeper out of more than twenty.
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Peekaboo

not much seen today, just one really surprised roe deer

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South Saint Vrain Creek, Colorado Photo credit: Tom Cosgrove @cosgrovetc.bsky.social

Good Sunday morning, fellow travelers.

“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.” — Henry David Thoreau

Winter hit us again, so today’s walk was in a chilly wind with fresh snow. This treecreeper couldn’t care less.

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Northern pygmy owl posing on a tree branch after successfully hunting a grasshopper that it cached on the branch below.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Birds&Bugs. This tiny #pygmyowl was pretty proud of the grasshopper it had caught and cached on the branch below.

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I found one flying around my office yesterday, so now I also have some fun during lunch breaks :)