Commuting Peregrines

What I see on a daily basis. Unfortunately also one of many things that will forever remind me of someone who recently passed away. Someone who meant an awful lot to me (and to these birds) the past two decades.

New balcony birds

Two White storks Ciconia ciconia inspecting a potential place for their nest... in the heart of Amsterdam (De Pijp, March 30, 2018).

Odd shot

Larus argentatus Y.BAJ @ Schiphol Airport, March 21 2018, 12:30 (http://timvannus.blogspot.nl/2015/09/herring-gull-ybaj-schiphol-airport.html)

´The Russian bear in Amsterdam´

Something with the moon tonight...

Super Blue Moon above the city.

"Here you can think what you want."

My favorite bird

This stunning portrait of an adult Peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus was drawn by Davina Falcão and it´s a late Christmas present I´m very glad to receive… I hope Davina will present more of her work somewhere online in the near future, you should check it out.

(And a happy 2018..!:-)

Hibernating Amsterdam parakeets

Ring-necked parakeets Psittacula krameri visiting a potential nesting cavity today, in a wall in Amsterdam Oost. Reportedly, it were Great spotted woodpeckers Dendrocopos major that constructed the cavity first, but it was later taken over by the parakeets. Whether any of these bred there this year remains unknown. For Amsterdam there are only two other reports of Ring-necked’s occupying holes in walls (here the species nests in tree cavities), but breeding did not get confirmed. This one fits at least three parakeets. Perhaps they find some warmth together this way; it’s currently cold as **** here and much too early for breeding. (Thanks Frank!)