In which we make our yearly autumn trip to nearby Linum and see tens of thousands of cranes.
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We took the boat out to Kladow on a very hot summer day, where we drank Fassbrause and Berliner Weisse and saw fluffy ducklings.
Who is on the balcony, flying swan edition
Who is on the balcony, flying swan edition: a swan flies over, head downwards.
Who is on the balcony, springtime addendum
Mallards are on the balcony, sitting heavily in flowerpots that E. just planted yesterday, in the rain, having a chat. [politepix-blog-inline-text-ad]
Can we call it yet?
I hope it isn’t tempting fate to call this remarkable winter finished and share some images from it. A grapevine runs along our walls; its little grapes were encased in ice before the last starlings in town could harvest them. [politepix-blog-inline-text-ad] Hooded crow in snow. Swans walk along a frozen waterway, searching for a break […]
Who is on the balcony?
Given: 1. Sparrows are attracted by birdseed. 2. If you attract sparrows, kestrels will come to hunt the sparrows. 3. You want to see kestrels, but you don’t want to unwittingly engineer a sparrow slaughter. 4. Crows are attracted by peanuts. 5. Crows repel kestrels, but only until they’ve removed all of the peanuts, and, […]