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| Ridiculously cool / cute caudatus Long-tailed Tit, Teufelsburg |
Five days in one of our favourite cities with some of our favourite people was resolutely not a birding trip, and I was in two minds as to whether to pack the camera and bins (= three quarters of my carry-on only luggage and a predictable pain in the neck at security) at all.... But I did, and although our adventure time in a nat hist capacity was limited to a couple of hours wandering around a dark, cold, windy Grunewald / Teufelsberg, Berlin provided, as it always does.
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| Not, Great, not Lesser - just right |
Within those couple of hours, we'd a brilliantly close fly-by Goshawk pursuing a shrieking Great Spotted Woodpecker, flocks of roving passerines including snowbally caudatus Long-tailed Tits and numerous Marsh Tits, great views of Middle Spotted Woodpecker, Hawfinch and more.
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| Spot the fly-by Hawfinch aginst the deserted US radar station... |
While most of our time was spent enjoying museums, Christmas markets and bars, that hardly ruled out the presence of wildlife of some diversity....
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| Naturkundemuseum - dinosaurs, specimen jars and plenty of decent birds.... |
