Excursion

June 18, 2026 · 1 min read · 2 visits

The local NABU chapter called me late in the afternoon, out of the blue, asking if I wanted to join a trip in their “Treffpunkt Naturschutzdienst” format, this time to the grazing project at the “Aufschlussgraben”, Werben. It is a closed-off area meant to restore local wildlife and serve as a compensation area for the heavily farmed fields around it. The big tease was the breeding ground of 50 bee-eater couples, a bird I aspire to photograph.

Sandy bank riddled with bee-eater nest holes, poppies at the base — One small stretch of the bee-eater colony’s nesting bank.

In the end I saw a few of them chasing through the sky, but I never got a close one. What I did manage to capture was a long-tailed tit.

Long-tailed tit perched on a lichen-covered branch, looking up

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