#black redstart

[longingforrotkehlchen]

*Takes care of babies in late summer. *Has to do it while moulting into new plumage. *Has to travel hundreds of dangerous kilometres soon.

Is he your hero yet?

Hausrotschwanz ♂️ (black redstart) an der Universität Stuttgart, Vaihingen.

[nh-art]

Grumpy baby dinosaur

[ed13d1]

will november meet us there?

The Watch • Andrea Kowch

[besidethepath]

The city beautification campaign is underway - the black redstarts are back!

[kavohh707]

2024 - Bird year in review - part 1.

The first part definitely belongs to my journey to Portugal. It was my first real holiday since the pandemic and it was wonderful. First, Portugal is always wonderful, I just love the people, the landscape, the vibe and of course the birds.

There were so many nice nature reserves, many bird hides (meeting other nice birders in those bird hides). I didn't see everything I wanted to see, but had many great experiences. The weather was nearly too good for bird photography (too sunny), but I managed to take over 3500 pictures anyway. Sorting through them took really long.

The highlights:

Seeing birds of the corvid family like the rare red-billed chough and the really not rare iberian magpies (who were a constant present in the garden of one of my accommodations).

My first osprey, not the first I've seen, but the first I've managed to photograph, my definitely first glossy ibis and first western swamphen and of course my first ever hoopoe, which I really wanted to see.

The many cute song birds like the corn buntings, the stonechats, the black redstart and many more.

And of course all the birds on long legs wading through shallow water: the spoonbills, the turnstones, common ringed plovers and of course the black-winged stilts, the flamingos and the western cattle egrets and so many more.

Overall, it was a joy to visit Portugal. Besides the birds I am always happy to be near the ocean (the last picture is not the ocean but the Tejo river).

[bitsandbirds]

My lifer black redstart! Such a charming little lady.

Female Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros), Ireland

[dansnaturepictures]

18/01/2025-Mallow leaves, views and stunning White-tailed Eagle, Black Redstart and Red-legged Partridge at Calshot and view looking down a channel of water and scentless mayweed at Lepe.

The White-tailed Eagle was a sensational sighting, it's the first time since the Isle of Wight reintroduction programme beginning that I've managed to see one of them in Hampshire having seen them on boat trips in Dorset and on the Isle of Wight a few times as well as being lucky to see them in Scotland including Mull over the last few years and seeing one that turned up in Hampshire in 2011 years before the reintroduction. Today I think managing to see one just on a relatively local Saturday afternoon walk brought it home that hopefully in years to come these magnificent birds will be a more common sight in the south of England which feels me with optimism.

I was also thrilled to see my first Raven of the year, Great Black-backed Gull, Red-breasted Merganser, mallow leaves and wild carrot seed heads at Calshot. Marsh Harrier, Pied Wagtail, Bullfinch, Wren, gorse and thistle leaves were good to see at Lepe with Brent Geese at both and Blue Tits enjoyed at home on a special day which will live long in the memory for me.

[takeapeck]

One little redstart by my doorstep (not pitching)

[wildlifegermany]

[hyperiionvii]

bird sketches

[bugtheories]

Male black redstart

[longingforrotkehlchen]

Angry at me. Angry at you. In love with him.

Hausrotschwanz 🐥 (black redstart) in Stuttgart-West.

[triruntu]

#531, a black redstart.

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[plumes-merry-critters]

Sharp-eyed black redstart

[besidethepath]

Not the greatest habitat, but it matches my outfit

[lowkeiloki]

i like to take pictures of animals i encounter that i dont recognize so i can look them up later and today was my lucky day, i discovered a new bug AND a new birb

this is common cockchafer

this is black redstart