Friday Afternoon Walk at the Danube in Linz

Today after work I directly headed to the River wetlands of the #Danube here in Linz for some #birdphotography. Since I barely have the chance to go "birding" during the week because when I stop working the sun is already short before setting, I really enjoy Fridays when I can stop earlier and of course the weekends. For tomorrow, I have already planned a nice trip here in Upper Austria and I will get up early, so I already need to hurry to go to bed today. But writing some lines here on #Hive is already a tradition for me that I only seldom want to miss.

Although I was at the Danube, I didn't find any interesting birds swimming in the water, so I had to concentrate on the birds that were sitting on trees and in the #bushes. Lucky that there are not many leaves on the trees, so it is still easy to spot different birds sitting or climbing trees. There was a Great spotted #woodpecker climbing a tree nearby, and I took several pictures of it.

Great Spotted Woodpecker. Picture: Florian Glechner.

I also found a #yellowhammer sitting on a branch, I took some pictures and tried to even get closer and to a better position where I could get a clear shot on the #bird, but unfortunately it flew away. I already learned to take some pictures before getting the perfect position and angle, because a lot of birds already flew away from their position while I tried to adjust my position for a better view, and then I was a little disappointed to not even get a shot. So now I try to get a shot and then adjust my position to get even a better shot, sometimes this is possible but in a lot of the times the birds fly away.

Yellowhammer on a branch. Picture: Florian Glechner.

Long-tailed tit hiding in the trees. Picture: Florian Glechner.

The next bird I found today was a #Long-tailed-tit, which I think is a pretty beautiful bird, but very fast and difficult to get a nice picture of. They always jump/fly around and try to hide in the bushes. When the bushes don't have leaves like today, because it is still winter they still hide and jump around very fast so it is not so easy to get a clear shot.

Another bird I met today was the #Common-starling, It was sitting on the top of a tree and observing the surroundings. Unfortunately the tree it sat on was pretty high, so this is the closest I could get with 600 Zoom and cropping of the Image. I have already taken better pictures of this bird.
A #blue-tit also managed to cross my way and although I have already a lot of pictures from this little fellow I pressed the shutter button for some pictures.

Common Starling. Picture: Florian Glechner.

Blue tit on a tree. Picture: Florian Glehcner.