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Netherlands, August

! Stork and black headed gulls

! Stork with herring gulls and wood pigeon

! Storks and grey heron

! The reason why so many birds are here. The tractor is cutting away the plants on the sides of the sloot(waterway). This disturbs a lot of insects, fish, amphibians and other invertebrates . Creating a feeding frenzy.

! A shot of the "green deserts" of the Netherlands

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Netherlands, July

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Netherlands, July

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Netherlands, Juli

  1. parent with newest child
  2. ~2 month old juvenile
  3. other parent maybe also with chick under the wings

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Netherlands, June

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Common kestrel on a windmill
  • Thanks. It's optical zoom all the way out from 600mm to 150mm. I was too lazy to walk back to get the entire windmill in shot.

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    Icterine warbler (more photos inside)
  • Thanks! The answer is ill of the above. 600mm lens on a APS-C camera 600 x 1.6 cropfactor = 960mm. 32.5 MP sensor 6960 x 4640 pixels cropped to around 1800 pixels wide 16:9 I think I was about 15 meters(~50 feet) from the bird

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    Simple FOSS GUI for Python
  • I always used wxwidgets for small stuff. Another option is gtk (pygobject) but that is slightly more annoying to work with.

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    Shelduck fight
  • Thanks, these ducks were in Zuid-Holland 40 km (25 miles) from the coast. They are also spotted in Limburg sometimes.

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