Waxwings!

The bohemian waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) is one of my favourite birds. They are easy to detect due to their chatty personalities and they sure know how to wear their feathers.

Astana, Kazakhstan, April 2017.

Is that a berry down there?

Yes.

Watching the sun go down

Sparrow, sparrow, magpie

The Great Crested Grebes

The Great Crested Grebes

Podiceps cristatus

Male

 And female

Kelda 420-800mm

I have purchased a cheap Kelda 420-800mm F/8.3-16 Super Telephoto Manual Zoom Lens on Amazon.

The quality of the pictures taken with this objective is far from great. Since the diameter of the lens is rather small (62mm) it doesn't capture enough light even on a pretty sunny day resulting in blurry pictures. Even when used with a tripod the pictures are a little blurry when cropped. This lens might be more useful for making videos rather than still shots.

It took me a long time to capture some relatively OK pictures.

Jackdaw (Corvus monedula) on top of a church

Wood dove  (Columba palumbus) on top of a lamppost

German grass snake in December

We found this lady while hiking in Chemnitz, Germany on a very unusually warm day in December, just after Christmas. I just had to pick her up and she was released a minute later. Hope she didn't freeze as the temperature dropped in the next days. The picture was not taken by me.

Grass snake (Natrix natrix)

Nov 29 2015, Leuven, Belgium

The great egret (Ardea alba) and the grey heron (Ardea cinerea)

Swan (Cygnus olor) picking up leaves

The Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)

The common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)

Washington State, USA, 2015

The Pacific tree frog (Pseudacris regilla)

The brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis)

A plunging pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)

Just a dove in Seattle

A grouse. A sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus)maybe.

Cute cuties. No idea waht they are.

Another generic looking bird. Possibly the American pipit (Anthus rubescens)

The great blue heron (Ardea herodias)

Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)

The Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri)