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(https://i.imgur.com/po7gdtw.jpg) Essex skipper. V similar to Small Skipper, but this has black antenna tips so is Essex. | (https://i.imgur.com/QAuqUVl.jpg) Frog, probably pool frog though I can't tell pool and marsh frogs apart easily. |
(https://i.imgur.com/NIp8dSF.jpg) Silverwashed fritillary, one of the bigger butterflies around. | (https://i.imgur.com/P4Npg5d.jpg) A great banded grayling, Brintesia circe: this was a new species for me. Very goth looks. |
(https://i.imgur.com/XO9cjKG.jpg) A Marbled White butterfly: these were very common & on the wing everywhere. | (https://i.imgur.com/wXWyxiC.jpg) A nine spotted moth, also known as yellow-belted burnet. Not something I was v familiar with: very chic "modern household" looks somehow. |
(https://i.imgur.com/QUgxHhH.jpg) The nest of a penduline tit, probably the young have some time since fledged. These are really beautifully crafted hanging structures that the birds make. Sadly I didn't see any penduline tits whilst there, but it's nice to know they're around. | (https://i.imgur.com/wA6CzQv.jpg) A self explanatory mute swan. There was a flock of about fifty on the side-stream of the Danube when I was there. Fifty birds isn't a big flock for most things, but fifty swans is an impressive looking flotilla. |
(https://i.imgur.com/70RPucx.jpg) A scarce swallowtail. One of the largest butterflies I've ever seen in the wild, and very impressive. | (https://i.imgur.com/zpwMojP.jpg) A clouded yellow butterfly. |
(https://i.imgur.com/i2hiQkr.jpg) A rock grayling or wood grayling, hard to say which. | (https://i.imgur.com/JUZi2Hm.jpg) Another rock or wood grayling, sharing its flower with a bee. |
(https://i.imgur.com/BBNMu5b.jpg) A hovering kestrel - they tend to hang very still in the air and drop rapidly to catch small mammals. | (https://i.imgur.com/Eev9JIA.jpg) A landed kestrel observes the landscape below. |
(https://i.imgur.com/CmKQmSG.jpg) I think this is a smallish silverwashed fritillary. | (https://i.imgur.com/y2cCgvr.jpg) A speckled wood butterfly. |
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(https://i.imgur.com/rZ6TI4L.jpg) A young boar (late August) | (https://i.imgur.com/M1XRyoS.jpg) A hamster with acorns (September) |
(https://i.imgur.com/MMLIlzF.jpg) Hamster peering round a grave (September) | (https://i.imgur.com/KK39h7R.jpg) A green woodpecker (September) |
(https://i.imgur.com/Wb5xjGk.jpg) A spotted flycatcher (September) | (https://i.imgur.com/aGlbcNC.jpg) A kingfisher (September) |
(https://i.imgur.com/eHY4o1f.jpg) A little bittern (September) | (https://i.imgur.com/ZxmEYa1.jpg) A tree sparrow (October) |
(https://i.imgur.com/jQdl3sI.jpg) A crested tit (October) | (https://i.imgur.com/sw5oLrq.jpg) A female black redstart (October) |
(https://i.imgur.com/z1cCju6.jpg) A lesser-spotted woodpecker (November) | (https://i.imgur.com/S9Om1h0.jpg) A roe deer (December) |
(https://i.imgur.com/pcJlZjE.jpg) A Brown Argus butterfly | (https://i.imgur.com/2kJ7Sg7.jpg) A wall lizard, seen at a small ruined castle in the hills |
(https://i.imgur.com/EzvBYdh.jpg) A Lesser Purple Emperor - the incredible blue sheen is iridescence & visible only at some angles | (https://i.imgur.com/fPWWmBQ.jpg) A young wild boar in the woods near the city. |
(https://i.imgur.com/vaMvJDn.jpg) Brintesia circe, the Great Banded Grayling butterfly. I don't actually know why it's named after the witch of Odyssey fame. | (https://i.imgur.com/tay3Spv.jpg) A male red-backed shrike, known as "butcher birds" for keeping larders of impaled insects on thorn bushes. |
(https://i.imgur.com/nCHQO77.jpg) An alpine longhorn beetle, very strikingly blue, found in the Lainzer tiergarten. | (https://i.imgur.com/vy3poLP.jpg) A curious baby field hamster, from Meidling cemetery. |
(https://i.imgur.com/Inieqei.jpg) Some more hamsters, watching some humans pass by a few metres away, | (https://i.imgur.com/TeMdXNq.jpg) A red squirrel - probably young given its lack of ear tufts. |
(https://i.imgur.com/yuJr1XG.jpg) A sugary pink water-lily at the Alte Donau Wasserpark. | (https://i.imgur.com/SRJTYlz.jpg) A cygnet. Most baby swans are grey (hence the "Ugly Duckling") but this one was a striking white more like the adults. |
(https://i.imgur.com/PLVSQv3.jpg) A European pond tortoise. Smaller and spottier than the bigger painted turtles that are now more common in Europe's cities. | (https://i.imgur.com/HRzo45f.jpg) A yellowhammer, at Perchtoldsdorfer Heide, singing raucously. |
(https://i.imgur.com/w8rhI5A.jpg) An orchid, at Perchtoldsdorfer Heide - probably a Woodcock Orchid. | (https://i.imgur.com/x2EwhEU.jpg) Orobanche, or broom-rape, a parasitic flower (hence the lack of green) that taps into the roots of another species. |
(https://i.imgur.com/9eQJSF6.jpg) A burnt orchid, at Perchtoldsdorfer Heide. | (https://i.imgur.com/nABdPNh.jpg) A meadow brown - common, and very variable in exact markings - with Perchtoldsdorf in the background. |
Wall lizard is cool lizardYeah, they were living in the two remaining walls of an old castle tower up in the forest. I quite liked the idea that once the knights had gone, the little dragons crept back in :)
(https://i.imgur.com/c059GuG.jpg) A painted tortoise (feral pet species) at the Old Danube Wasserpark. | (https://i.imgur.com/HjdPFVK.jpg) A male black redstart at Perchtoldsdorfer Heide. |
(https://i.imgur.com/ZJTiMyN.jpg) Autumn gentians at Perchtoldsdorfer Heide. | (https://i.imgur.com/2w55da2.jpg) A hovering kestrel at Perchtoldsdorfer Heide. |
(https://i.imgur.com/taB5gTr.jpg) A wild field hamster at Meidling cemetery. | (https://i.imgur.com/07gxa02.jpg) Another field hamster at Meidling cemetery. |
(https://i.imgur.com/W5vyq50.jpg) A goldfinch at Vienna's central cemetery. | (https://i.imgur.com/rt5rW3b.jpg) A green woodpecker at Vienna's central cemetery. |
(https://i.imgur.com/nz3URIC.jpg) A female house sparrow, near the Neue Donau Ubahn station. | (https://i.imgur.com/wHgNqql.jpg) A red squirrel at the Old Danube Wasserpark. |
(https://i.imgur.com/CygkEgH.jpg) A wren foraging atop a beaver's dam on the Donauinsel. | (https://i.imgur.com/YmnDqYB.jpg) A kingfisher at the Old Danube Wasserpark. |
(https://i.imgur.com/z6TVVx3.jpg) A nuthatch in the Volksgarten, central Vienna. | (https://i.imgur.com/uwl2wIW.jpg) A red squirrel at the Erholungsgebiet Wienerberg. |
(https://i.imgur.com/GeCjSXm.jpg) A brown rat at the Erholungsgebiet Wienerberg. | (https://i.imgur.com/646YjwI.jpg) A jay at the Erholungsgebiet Wienerberg. |
Do you bring a camera with lens that can move back and forth, or just a cell phone camera? You make good closeups.
(https://i.imgur.com/jRLWEEB.jpg) A swan on the Danube. Majestic and full of spite as usual. | (https://i.imgur.com/dSNCzGr.jpg) Little grebes, tiny fluffy diving water-birds. |
(https://i.imgur.com/POvrw8P.jpg) A cormorant perches high above the Danube's waters. | (https://i.imgur.com/PYB4qmS.jpg) A blue-tit forages for winter food. |
(https://i.imgur.com/NkshT2K.jpg) A squirrel curls almost motionless on the corner of a branch, saving energy and being a little warmed by winter sun. | (https://i.imgur.com/jK9d8NS.jpg) A moorhen (behind) and, more interestingly, a little water rail in front - only the second time I've ever photographed one. |
(https://i.imgur.com/JdcjbjR.jpg) Water rails are named for their strangled-sounding 'railing' cries... | (https://i.imgur.com/WNe84ZR.jpg) ...but they're rarely seen, preferring to skulk in ditch vegetation or reed-beds. |
(https://i.imgur.com/H9jq9IR.jpg) Another bird I don't see much, a middle-spotted woodpecker - smaller than its commoner great-spotted cousin. | (https://i.imgur.com/XZnxKRx.jpg) The middle-spot has a bright full red crest which can be seen here: the great-spot just has a red dot at the back of the head. |
(https://i.imgur.com/dSykZXl.jpg) Middle-spots can sometimes be mistaken for young great-spots, but the shape is quite different. | (https://i.imgur.com/WHe1mmb.jpg) A treecreeper! Not sure if it's common or short-toed, the differences are quite subtle. |
(https://i.imgur.com/cGqPvF4.jpg) A great white egret, a large bird closely related to herons, perched high up a tree. Also not something I see often. | (https://i.imgur.com/WFGprWs.jpg) The beaver inlets on the Donauinsel are rather pretty and good for wildlife. |
(https://i.imgur.com/Wm0zK23.jpg) It may take a second glance to spot the little grebe in the middle of this picture! | (https://i.imgur.com/sTV5MFr.jpg) A male gadwall, one of the less common ducks that we get as winter visitors. |
(https://i.imgur.com/e9bTJLV.jpg) A kestrel lit by the evening (well, 3:30 but that's about the same thing at this time of year) sun. | (https://i.imgur.com/XqIVF5A.jpg) On my way back I came across someone walking their pony. It was very fluffy. |
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