January 2011 In most countries people do welcome the new year with fireworks. In different cultures it has different traditional backgrounds, and fireworks, of course, have found their way into the phonography community as a permanent annual feature. Like many other people, I wonder what impact this tradition has for birds or animals in general,… Continue reading New year’s eve inside a nest box
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Greifswalder Oie IV
December 2010 During the second half of December I visited the isle Greifswalder Oie another time (german Baltic Sea). As expected, there was a lot of snow and for a few days the coast around the isle was frozen – some parts even to the horizon. 101222, Northern Raven Corvus corax, pair, display flight This… Continue reading Greifswalder Oie IV
Summer
July 2010 In spring/summer 2010 I did several monitoring jobs. One of them regarded the occurence of the River Warbler Locustella fluviatillis in Leipzig’s alluvial forest. I could found only a few singers, one of them in a marvellous area called Papitzer Lachen (Papitz`s Puddles). Here´s a recording of one male with loads of European… Continue reading Summer
Austria & Hungary
July 2010 In the mid of May 2010 I was part of a short birding-tour to Austria and Hungary. We visited the famous Wienerwald, Neusiedler See and the Fertö-Hanság Nemzeti Park in northern Hungary. At the end of our six-day trip we had 140 bird species at our list but I recorded only a few… Continue reading Austria & Hungary
Werner Sykora is: The Beaver Man
June 2010 In may I met Werner Sykora a local ornithologist and Beaver conservationist. I was quite surprised when he told me that he builds his own sound recording equipment and made countless sound recordings of Eurasian Beavers during the last years – mainly inside of the beaver lodges! He was so kind to sent… Continue reading Werner Sykora is: The Beaver Man
Grosssteinberg II
June 2010 In order to handle the bitter feelings of loosing a friend by death, I started to make sound recordings inside and along the stone pit Großsteinberg (near Leipzig) once again. It was one of the places, we regularly visited together. Sadly the axcavation in the quarry has been boost anew. For that reason… Continue reading Grosssteinberg II
Grosssteinberg
May 2010 Ingo Garschke, Ink Drawing, 2009