04.08. 2008

BEE-EATERS AT GEISELTAL

August 4th, 2008 geschrieben von Patrick

Within the last weeks we went to an area called “Geiseltal”
near Merseburg (FRG).
It was a brown coal pit till 1994. Now the area will be changed to
a immense water landscpae for all kinds of sports.
Some animals which life there today would disappear.
One of the fine species there are the Bee-Eaters Merops apiaster.
There´s a breeding colony and at the last times we saw up to 60 birds…

 

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© Pictures by Marcus Held

03.08. 2008

CORN BUNTING WITH YELLOWHAMER SONG

August 3rd, 2008 geschrieben von Patrick

On spring 2008 the ornithologist Reinhold Brennecke (Haldensleben, near Magdeburg, FRGermany)
told me about a Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra he watched for 3 years, which singing like
a Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella. At the Forum of “Verein Sächsischer Ornithlogen” (VSO) i read
a report about the same topic. On early summer i visit the described place and had the luck to see and
hear the bird. Actually it was a Corn Bunting (on Dick Forsman´s homepage i read 1 month ago about nearly
grey Yellowhammers!)
While our SINGWARTE camp in July 2008 Marcus Held and i went out to record the singer.
The bird sang 2 different kinds of songs. A nearly equal Yellowhammer and a mixed
Yellowhammer/Corn Bunting song. The mixed one starts with Corn Bunting like short single sounds,
followed by a Yellowhammer part (typical first part double sounds in Yellowhammer song). The song
of our Corn Bunting ends with the typical short Corn Bunting sounds.

Corn Bunting, typical song

 

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Corn Bunting, atypical song – mixed one

 

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Corn Bunting, atypical song – nearly equal to Yellowhammer

 

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Yellowhammer, typical song

 

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02.08. 2008

DRÖMLING, JULY 2008

August 2nd, 2008 geschrieben von Patrick

End of July 2008 i visited the Drömling, a great area of grass- and moorland northerly
between Braunschweig and Magdeburg (FRGermany).
At the fields i recorded the Common Quail Coturnix coturnix and at a homestead 4
Barn Swallow´s Hirundo rustica singing (Passer montanus in background).

Quail Coturnix coturnix
 

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Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
 

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02.08. 2008

THE GOLDEN ORIOLE

August 2nd, 2008 geschrieben von Patrick

At times i am birding at a park (formely grassland and then brown coal pit) in Leipzig (FRGermany) called Halde-Lösnig-Dösen. On 2008, 12th July´s morning i encountered a family of Golden Orioles Oriolus oriolus.

 

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02.08. 2008

WAITING FOR BOTAURUS STELLARIS

August 2nd, 2008 geschrieben von Patrick

Meanwhile waiting for the call of Eurasian Bittern Botaurus stellaris a Roe Deer Capreolus capreolus
came closer and called “alarm” as it noted us… Nearby a Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos.

22 June 2008, Schladebach near Merseburg, Sachsen-Anhalt (FRGermany), 11pm
 

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24.07. 2008

MILVUS MIGRANS +

July 24th, 2008 geschrieben von Patrick

Yesterday i recorded a family Black Kite Milvus migrans in Leipzig (FRGermany) as something unexpected happend…
 

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© Picture by Marcus Held

10.07. 2008

SINGWARTE – A NATURE SOUND RECORDING CAMP

July 10th, 2008 geschrieben von Patrick

SINGWARTE – A Nature Sound Recording Camp took place from June 26-29 2008 in
Süplingen (Sachsen-Anhalt near Magdeburg, FRGermany). Please find here a few
pictures and a recording:

Common Grasshopper Warbler Locustella naevia, song
 

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A few picture taken by Marcus Held:
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10.07. 2008

“TURMSEGLER”

July 10th, 2008 geschrieben von Patrick

Yesterday i recorded a Common Swift Apus apus close to my window
 

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08.07. 2008

SYLVIIDAE WITH ATYPICAL SONGS

July 8th, 2008 geschrieben von Patrick

Last year a birder from Leipzig pointed me to 2 birds that sing atypical. They were optically identified as Sylvia borin and Sylvia atricapilla. A detailed article was published in the society´s periodical “Mitteilungen des Ornithologischen Vereins zu Leipzig e.V. #14″. Please find the recordings and sonagrams below:

Sylvia atricapilla, typical Song

Sylvia atricapilla, atypical song

Sylvia atricapilla, atypical song

 

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Sylvia atricapilla, atypical Song

Sylvia atricapilla, atypical Song

Sylvia borin, typical song

Sylvia borin, atypical Song

Sylvia borin, atypical Song

 

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