Some Polite Pictures

Urban birds and other things

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A hooded crow, or carrion crow, flies over Kreuzberg
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Heron flying over the Wannsee with lunch.
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This look reminds me of a New Yorker cutting you off in traffic.
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Swans flying past our house.
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They hadn't seen each other in a year or so, and the eagle was very excited and did quite a bit of grooming and nuzzling. Watching a bird which can kill a stag nuzzle a human with his beak is endearing and alarming in equal measures.
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Heron am Kleinen Wannsee.
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This is my favorite photo. This is clearly the Winston Churchill of sparrows.
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Great crested grebe working it.
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They mate for life.
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This wild cockatoo is having a moment.
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Wild sulfur-crested cockatoo being funny.
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