Seeing many birds around but i didn't know the names. However, recently I was gifted <3 the book " Collin Birds guide" about birds of Europe . This develops more the curiosity and enthusiasm around knowing more of the birds, at least some basic information. So far i really like the book: very informative with precise pictures to recorgnize them. I love how they describe the sound of the bird as well. Putting down here the birds I found to remember myself about them :).
I would love to have birds freely live in my garden, but I guess my cat also loves it in a different way :D...So let's leave it for now.
| Date | How I found and their names |
| 02/04/2021 | Oystercachers Saw several of them on Texel island, De Koog beach . They have a bit mixed of black and white in their necks. It was very wide and windy and cold beach, but they didn't really care, they were still searching for food. It's said that their main food are oysters, mussels...(such luxurious for us :D ) |
| Ring-necked Pheasant (there are many types of Pheasant) Also on Texel island, in the camping area while we were walking from pier 20-21. There were 2/3 at least we saw, they look beautiful with the nice tails. My first thought would be its Peacock (silly :D ) | |
| 14/03/2021 | Moorhen It's a familiar bird on the canals. Looks like coots, but they have red heads and white&black tails. They have quite fun jerking heads when swimming and tails when walking |
| Black headed gull Look different from the normal gull because (as the name stated) of the white body and black head. They look beautiful on the canal | |
| great crested grebe J. and I are debating if what we saw was actually that bird. They look beautiful, yet with the normal eyes looking into the canal, its tough to confirm this :) | |
| 13/03/2021 | Tufted Duck We saw male adults black Duck with white side. This is more rare in compare to normal Ducks |
| Cormorants (chim cốc) There were 2 of them, one stayed on the branch and another was fishing on the canal. They look of the same size, but so distinguish black in compare to Greyheron Interesting fact: Cormorants were/are used by Chinese and Japanese from ancient till now for fishing :) https://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/cormorants/faq.htm | |
| Blackbirds | |
| Blue tit The sound is short. small bird with a green belly. It has a bit blue wing, white head with a black strip around the eyes In the beginning, I mistook it for Great tit (which i saw another day in my garden), but the white head with a black strip around the eyes completely differentiate the blue tit from the great tit. 09/04/2022 - chiffchaff We were in the park near home and this bird sang continuously on a branch. Its colour is like lemon under the sun. What a name 08/04/2023 - Blue rock thrush In Delphi temple, we suddenly saw a dark blue shining bird on top of the Apollo temple column - like they own it. Turn out to be that one 11/04/2023 - Goldfinch: Saw it freely (not in a cage) for the first time in the Aristotle School of Athens. We were not sure which bird was without binoculars, but it was so clear and beautiful to watch with our binoculars. We were happy 15/04/2023 - Willow Warbler 15/04/2023 - Young black cap Instead of having a black cap, it has dark red cap |
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