Katha Traenkle
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Katha Traenkle
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Birding, nature, working for a swift rehabilitation center in Switzerland, Biodiversity,
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #movement any bird showing movement of any description.

Blue Tit
December 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Songbirds and the alternative is #Seabirds.
#birds 🪶

One of the camera friendly little birds is the fence loving

Europaean Stonechat
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LookingAtYou.
#Birds 🪶

From Top down

Male Crossbill
December 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
One more for the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Stripes
Some of the striped birds are not easy to spot, like this bird in a perfect environment

Woodlark
December 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #Reflections and the Alternative is #LongTails

So lets enjoy the winter sun with this male

C. Pochard
December 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BerriesandBeaks

A species very interested in Berries is the

Common Blackbird, female here
November 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Gannets, interpret it how you see it (bonus for actual Gannets).
#birds

Northern Gannet - Great seabirds, far away from my country, this one is from Helgoland
November 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #HeadShots, any Birds 'Close Up Capture'.
#birds

Tawny Owl
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OnTheEdge of water
This is some years old, from the German isle Amrum

Sanderling
November 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #HangingAround
#Birds

So here we go with a

Coal Tit
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Today’s #BirdOfTheDayTheme is #warblers the alternative is #yelloweyes

Okay, guys, I adore warblers. Awesome busy birds, often great singers, great alert sounds too. Well, they are great in playing hide and seek.

Barred Warbler

not the best picture but with 💚
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Today's #birdoftheday theme is #Mr&Mrs.
#birds

So here are Mr. and Mrs. Northern Lapwing
November 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Saturday’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #birdonawire birds on a wire or line and the alternative is #silhouette
#birds

For all (including me) in need of some color: Green Bee-Eater
from Armenia some years ago
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #GroundedGulls, that's any Gull not in flight. And the Alternative is #Singing, that's any bird with it's beak open.
#bird

This is a Lesser Black-Backed Gull
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Thrushes and the alternative is #waders
#birds

Here the greatly colored Fieldfare
November 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Today's #birdsoftheday is #round

Here a red and round

Eurasian Bullfinch
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Today's #birdoftheday ist #staredown
#birds

An early morning encounter somewhere in Bulgaria 2023

Little Owl
November 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Alan's #BirdOfTheDay theme for today is #shadesofgray with an alternative of #beakopen.

A Common Cockoo
Unfortunately not common anymore in Switzerland
November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#birds #WorstBirdPic and yes, #PhotoFailFriday

Some birds are too fast and too close for me:

Feral Pigeon
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #swans and the alternative is #posts birds perched on any type of post. #Birds

I have a young Mute Swan doing an advanced yoga pose
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Today's #BirdofTheDay #DucksOutOfWater
#birds

Mr. Tufted Duck - a duck not so often out of the water
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
#BirdOfTheDay theme today is #paddling ,birds standing or walking in shallow water
#birds

This is an adult female Little Bittern, a greatly camouflaged bird
November 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The main #BirdOfTheDay theme for today is #BirdsOnTheGround and here is one of my favorites

Meadow Pipit
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #least and this means the #bird in your camera roll that you have the least captures of.
#birds

They are tiny, they never sit still, often half way hidden in the pine needles and this is one of exact 2 pictures I have.

Common Goldcrest
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #StandingOnThings except the Floor.
#birds #sparrow

House sparrow
November 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM