Boston.com: The Big Picture: News Stories in Photographs. Scenes from Antarctica has some breathtakingly beautiful photos from – you guessed it – Antarctica. Summer is just starting down there.
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Category Archives: Wildlife
Kranichzug
Jeden Herbst höre ich die Kraniche, die nach Spanien unterwegs sind, um dort zu überwintern, in der Luft trompeten. Das erinnert mich immer daran, dass der Sommer vorbei ist und der Winter kommt. Interessanterweise höre ich die Kraniche nie im Frühjahr; vielleicht fliegen sie dann eine andere Route?
Den Zug einiger Kraniche kann man auf Kranichzug.de verfolgen; dort kann man verfolgen, wo beringte bzw. mit Sendern versehene Kraniche gesichtet wurden.
Guess where we were on vacation, part three
A black bear with two cubs. Taken on July 4th, 2008.
Guess where we were on vacation!
A moose having lunch. Click for bigger version.
Green Woodpecker
Last Sunday, André and I observed an interesting visitor in our garden: a green woodpecker (Grünspecht). Unlike “normal” woodpeckers, they mostly search for food on the ground, where they forage for ants, earthworms etc.. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get really close with my camera, so the quality of the images is not the best, but this is what we saw through the living-room window. (As usual, click for a bigger version.)
I think they look even more vibrant than the more common great spotted woodpeckers (Buntspechte) we have here, but I just found out that there are a lot of different kinds of woodpeckers, some of which have even more colourful plumage.