TFW you and your terrace are a great mineral source for a Lesser Purple Emperor (Apatura ilia | Kleiner Schillerfalter). 2026-06-16, #Siebengebirge, 🇩🇪 #Lepidoptera #Butterfly #Insects #Photography #Naturephotography #Insectphotography #Butterflies #iridescence #blue #colour

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #NegativeSpace. The alt is #Solitude. Here is a distant Peregrine Falcon on rocky peak against the clear #bluesky in the #Siebengebirge 🇩🇪 #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Birds #birdphotography #naturephotography #Wanderfalke #birding #photography #patchbirding #peregrinefalcon

Cordulegaster bidentata | Sombre Goldenring | Gestreifte Quelljungfer What a gigantic stunner among the Central European #dragonflies! Found during a BBQ in the #garden of my in-laws 🫣 2026-05-25, #Siebengebirge, 🇩🇪 #Odonata #Photography #NaturePhotography #OMSystems #WildlifePhotography #Insects

#BirdOfTheDay themes are #ScrollBack ✅ and #unloved ✅ so here's a recent shot of a Common wood pigeon. The georgeousness of this abundant species might be a bit underrated. 2026-05-16, #Siebengebirge, 🇩🇪 #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birds #birdphotography #naturephotography #photography #portrait #birding

“Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LinedUp, 3 or more birds in a line. The Alt Theme is #Laridae, any of the named species" Black-headed Gulls on a railing next to the river #Rhine in #Bonn /🇩🇪 fulfill all four requisites. 😉 #birds #birding #birdphotography #naturephotography #urbanbirding #gulls

A singing Savi's Warbler in early morning backlight was my weekend's highlight. A very rare bird in my area. 🔊 to listen to one of the strangest songbird sounds in Europe. 2026-05-09, Rhineland-Palatinate, 🇩🇪 #birding #birdwatching #birdvideo #warbler #birds #birdsong #BirdsSeenIn2026

#Sporophila #Seedeater #Pfäffchen

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #posted. This European Turtle Dove is one of only a few left in the Rhineland so I appreciate any observation. #birds #birdphotography #nature #conservation #photography

If you can, be nice to yourself and go birding this weekend.

When your working day is suddenly interrupted because you have to watch a Red #Squirrel collecting nesting material in front of the window... 📍 #Siebengebirge #nature #wildlife #naturephotography #photography #spring #wildlifephotography #mammals #photoftheday #squirrels

A Common wood pigeon in the #garden makes #eyecontact for #BirdOfTheDay. #gardenbirds #birds #birding #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #nature #gardenbirding #naturephotography #photography

Liebe @taz.de, ein YT-Video einer gut dressierten Taube als Quelle. 🤔 Sprecht doch mal mit Forschenden oder schiebt den Artikel in "Die Wahrheit". #Journalismus braucht deutlich mehr #Biologie -Kompetenz... ps Mein Hund kann sprechen (Loriot) #Zeitungsente #FakeNews taz.de/Russisches-U...

A Blue Tit kindly reminds you of your good resolutions towards a few minutes of #birding every day. 🪶🐦 2026-01-24, #Siebengebirge (🇩🇪) #BirdsSeenIn2026 #gardenbirding #patchbirding #birds #birdphotography #BirdOfTheDay #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #urbanbirding #photography #nature

Light conditions in the shady #garden were far from perfect. This Great Tit on a branch managed to sneak into your timeline to brighten up your weekend, anyway. 2026-01-24 #Siebengebirge 🇩🇪 #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birds #birding #gardenbirding #patchbirding #birdphotography #naturephotography #photography

Der #Bienenfresser erobert Deutschland. Dabei ist der bunte Vogel eigentlich in wärmeren Regionen zu Hause. Im Interview mit @thomaskrumenacker.bsky.social erklärt der Biologe Hans-Valentin Bastian, warum man den Bienenfresser hierzulande immer häufiger sieht. @dornitholges.bsky.social

A Great White Egret for #BirdOfTheDay #LongBeaks #BirdsInFlight

Boardwalk on the island of #Ilhabela (Brasil) 🌿 #photography

Given that there are no conspecifics in the region, the lonely Whooper Swan near Bonn might also be a late addition to the #solitude theme of #BirdoftheDay.🫣🦢

🦢 Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus), an exceedingly rare guest here and a highly welcome late afternoon twitch. 🥳 A digiscoped shot in pouring rain for #BirdsSeenIn2026 2026-01-12, #Rhineland, 🇩🇪 #birding #birds #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography

#Wetterlage 🥶❄️🌨️☃️🌬️: Wie gehen #Vögel mit #Schnee und #Eis um? Warum frieren die Füße auf dem Eis nicht ein? Welcher Vogel hat einen Vorrats-Kühlschrank? Warum haben #Eisvögel im #Winter Probleme? #Winterschlaf? #Winterflucht? ... Unsere #FAQ haben die Antworten ➡ nw-ornithologen.de/index.php/da...

Swiss Breeding Bird Monitoring dataset is now openly accessible! The team from @vogelwarte.bsky.social made the long-term dataset of the Swiss CBM program (“Monitoring Häufige Brutvögel”, MHB) freely available under CC-BY 4.0 licence. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Tiefgreifender Eingriff in zentrale Umweltstandards & eine Zäsur im Umgang mit Natur- und Umweltverbänden: Wir kritisieren u.a. mit @bund.net & @naturschutzring.bsky.social das geplante #Infrastruktur-Zukunftsgesetz und fordern dringend Nachbesserungen. Mehr ➡️ www.nabu.de/news/2025/12...

Eurasian Collared Dove has colonized the Rhineland (🇩🇪) in the mid of the 20th century. Later very abundant, now rare here again. 👀 Today, 12 together wll hidden in a hedge! 2025-12-14 #birdphotography #birds #birding #naturephotography #BirdsSeenIn2025 #dove #biogeography #Türkentaube #Vogelfoto

Fascinated to learn that we are still discovering new species at the highest rate ever. Mapping Earth's biodiversity is far from over, and while we learn more and more about it, let's protect what we do know as well as we can! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨Neuer Artikel | 🚨New article ⬇️

#Cop30 in Belem - meanwhile in Germany: A new #Autobahn will be built in the #Eifel. It will strongly affect an important area protected by European conservation law and threaten rare species. #natureconservation #birds #A1 #climatecrisis #biodiversitycrisis www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/...

Early-career ornithologists take note!! The next EOU Fledglings meeting will take place in Gdansk in March 2026. Please RT! #ornithology

Mein langfristiger subjektiver Eindruck aus #Vogelmonitoring + #Naturschutz ist tw anders: Heute sind wir mehr, haben aber individuell oft weniger Zeit als vor Jahrzehnten. Gibt's Zahlen dazu? Korrigiert mich gerne. www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesel... @dda-avifauna.bsky.social @nabu.de #Ehrenamt

Women in ornithology? Absolutely essential! Unfortunately, they remain underrepresented. Our president @dorit-vlh.bsky.social and second chair Sylke Frahnert went on a mission to uncover and highlight forgotten female contributors to ornithology.

New State of birds in Germany ("Vögel in Deutschland") by DDA @dda-avifauna.bsky.social and @bfn-de.bsky.social

Hummigbird hawk-moths to brighten up grey #autumn days 🦋 Taubenschwänzchen. 📅 2025-10-19 + 21, #Siebengebirge, 🇩🇪 #Moth #Lepidoptera #Sphingidae #Nature #garden #naturephotography #photography #autumncolours #fall #insects #Schwärmer #Schmetterling #Naturfotografie #Foto #Garten #Insekten #Garten

Common Cranes on the #horizon #Kraniche am #Horizont 2025-10-18 #Siebengebirge #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birding #birds #birdphotography #BlueSky #nature #birdphotography #photography #birdmigration

🚨 Neue Studie Brutvögel-Artenvielfalt: Langfristige Veränderungen übertreffen Auswirkungen des extremen Hochwassers Pressemitteilung www.uni-osnabrueck.de/campusleben/... 🧵 1/6 #Naturschutz #Artenschutz #Vogelschutz #Naturschutzbiologie

🚨 Neue Studie Brutvögel-Artenvielfalt: Langfristige Veränderungen übertreffen Auswirkungen des extremen Hochwassers Pressemitteilung www.uni-osnabrueck.de/campusleben/... 🧵 1/6 #Naturschutz #Artenschutz #Vogelschutz #Naturschutzbiologie

🚨 Paper alert Long-term decline and homogenization of an avian community surpasses effects on bird diversity caused by a single extreme flood event free pdf (European Journal of Ecology) journals.ku.edu/EuroJEcol/ar... 🧵 1/6

This female 1 cy Eurasian Goshawk is an almost daily visitor over the #garden. Habicht über dem #Garten. 2025-10-14 #Siebengebirge 🇩🇪 #birding #birdphotography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #photography #BirdsSeenIn2025 #BlueSky #patchbirding #raptor #Vögel #Vogelfoto

It's #WorldMigratoryBirdDay! 2 Common Snipes, a Dunlin, a Curlew Sandpiper and a lot of suitable resting habitat along the shore of a lake ( #mud ). #birding #birdvideo #wetlands #birdmigration #WorldMigratoryBirdDay2025 #BirdsSeenIn2025 (🇩🇪)

Beobachtungstipp "Ackerlimikolen" In den letzten Tagen sind erstaunlich viele #Kiebitzregenpfeifer beobachtet worden. Diese u.a. #Limikolen rasten immer wieder auf Äckern. ➡️ www.nw-ornithologen.de/index.php/ak... #Vögel #Vogelbeobachtung #Vogelzug 📷 @dstiels.bsky.social (Belegfoto) 🌐 #ornitho

🍁🐦🍂 Some #autumn #colours ... European Goldfinches on Wild teasel. | Stieglitze auf Wilder Karde. 2025-09-27 Rhineland, 🇩🇪 #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds #birding #photography #birdphotography #fallow #flowerstrips #wildlifephotography #nature #Goldfinch #Stieglitz #Vögel #Vogelfoto #Herbst #Naturfoto

Bird monitoring data from the UK. Always worth comparing with trends from Central Europe, e.g., similar negative trends in Willow Tit and Tree Sparrow or positive trends in Cetti's Warbler ⬇️

Migrating Black Storks (Ciconia nigra) over the garden. Just a strongly edited record shot but you can clearly distinguish a 1st year from an adult (look at the dull vs. bright reddish bill). 2025-09-20 #Siebengebirge, 🇩🇪 #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds #birdidentification #birdmigration #birdphotography

A look is worth a thousand words. Common wood pigeon | Ringeltaube 2025-09-19 #Siebengebirge 🇩🇪 #birds #birding #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #BirdsSeenIn2025 #photography #gardenbirding

#Leptember brings Hummingbird hawk-moths! They seem to be particularly keen of Calamintha (Clinopodium) flowers in the garden. Taubenschwänzchen an Bergminze. 2025-09-10, #Siebengebirge, 🇩🇪 #Moths #TeamMoth #Lepidoptera #Insects #Photography #NaturePhotography #Insectphotography

Asian hornets (Vespa velutina) have become a daily sight in our #garden. 2025-09-10 #Siebengebirge, NRW, 🇩🇪 #InvasiveSpecies #Neobiota #NonNativeSpecies #Insects #AsianHornet #Hymenoptera #NaturePhotography #Photography

Extraordinary migration over the #garden yesterday: 1 Osprey, 5 Honey Buzzards, 1 Marsh Harrier, 2 Black Storks. All very high, though. 2025-09-04 #Siebengebirge 🇩🇪 #birding #patchbirding #gardenbirding #birdphotography #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds #Vögel #Vogelzug #Vogelfoto #Fischadler

Bird migration continues, so here is a Whinchat showing the subtile beauty of its tan, brown, black and white plumage. 2025-09-04, #Siebengebirge, 🇩🇪 #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birding #birdphotography #naturephotography #nature #birding #photography #birds #Vögel #Vogelbeobachtung #Braunkehlchen #Vogelfoto

A short reminder that European Turtle Doves have already diminished from many former breeding areas in Central Europe - a hunting ban in parts of the #EU ended this spring. #Ecocide PR by @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social from Apr. 25 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/04...

🦅👀 Autumn Migration of European Honey Buzzards seems to reach its peak. YDA, >15 + this evening a flock of 13 🔄 high above the terrace (📷 cutout). 📍 #Siebengebirge, 🇩🇪 #BirdsSeenIn2015 #birding #patchbirding #gardenbirding #nature #birdphotography #terracebirding #raptors #BlueSky #birdmigration

Aktuell ist bei uns der Höhepunkt des Wespenbussard-Durchzugs ▶️ www.nw-ornithologen.de/index.php/ak... Gestern waren es >15, heute Abend ein Trupp mit 13 (📷 zeigt Ausschnitt). #Vögel #Vogelbeobachtung #Vogelzug