🇳🇱 Goedenacht, slaap zacht. #GroteZaagbek #InEenNatuurgebied
🇩🇪 Gute Nacht und schöne Träume. #Gänsesäger
🇬🇧 Good night, sleep tight. #CommonMerganser
🇨🇿 Dobrou noc a hezké sny. #MorčákVelký
#MergusMerganser

I also dropped by at the coast yesterday. There were a lot of goosanders and mallards there. I caught these two doing synchronized preening for a brief moment. Oh, and at least there is one good thing about the short days here: midday sunlight is starting to look good now.

#goosander
#mergusmerganser
#mallard
#anasplatyrhynchos
#birds
#helsinki
#finland
#november
#autumn
#fall

🇳🇱 Goedenacht, slaap zacht. #GroteZaagbek
🇩🇪 Gute Nacht und schöne Träume. #Gänsesäger
🇬🇧 Good night, sleep tight. #CommonMerganser
🇨🇿 Dobrou noc a hezké sny. #MorčákVelký #Česko #KarlovarskýKraj
#MergusMerganser

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🦆 Female Common Merganser 🇫🇮
📝For this photo, I lay down on the edge of the coast under a camouflage net.
ℹ️ Goosanders (Mergus merganser) belong to the duck family. They grow up to 27 inches tall and have a wingspan of up to 37 inches. They mainly feed on fish. The male has a black head, while the female has a dark reddish-brown one.

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🦆 Gänsesägerweibchen 🇫🇮
📝 Für das Foto habe ich mich unter einem Tarnnetz an den Küstenrand gelegt.
ℹ️ Gänsesäger (Mergus merganser) gehören zu den Entenvögel. Sie werden bis zu 68 cm groß und haben eine Spannweite von bis zu 94 cm. Sie ernähren sich vor allem von Fischen. Das Männchen hat einen schwarzen, das Weibchen einen dunkelrotbraunen Kopf.

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Cam: #sonya7cii
Objektiv: #sigma150600 bei 548 mm

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f/6.3
1/1.600 s
ISO 500

#gänsesäger #mergusmerganser #commonmerganser #naturfotografie #nature #natur #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #vogel #vogelfotografie #bird #birdphotography #wellfotos #sonyalpha #sigma #finnland #finland #suomi

Moments You Can’t Plan

A quiet winter walk along the Millstone River turned into a moment of magic when a Common Merganser cut through the stillness. #Birds

https://islandinthenet.com/moments-you-cant-plan/

Yes! Oystercatchers are back!

#eurasianoystercatcher
#haematopusostralegus
#commonmerganser
#mergusmerganser
#helsinki
#finland
#spring
#april
#birds

Pirates! These gulls are not just any ordinary gulls – they are great black-backed gulls, the largest gull species in the world. In October, I saw a group of them following goosanders that were fishing. Once the gulls saw a goosander with a fish... I followed the birds for a while, but I was not fast enough to photograph the successful attempts :(

Great black-backed gulls are cool birds, they are not cute, but I still like them. On Monday, I found one perching on a transmission tower and took a picture of its bum from below because of course. Maybe you'll see it here some day :)

#greatblackbackedgull
#larusmarinus
#goosander
#mergusmerganser
#birds
#helsinki
#finland