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More garden birds at the bird table

Video of robins, blue tits, long-tailed tits and a great tit, bullfinches and a green finch feeding on a bird table. The squirrel also puts in a flying visit.

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Berlin interlude – the Zoo

Trying to improve my video skills by practicing on zoo animals.

Featuring polar bears, hippos, including the zoo’s most latest star, a recently-born hippo, pelicans and kangaroos.

Our closest relatives among the great apes also put in an appearance, behind glass sadly: gorillas, chimps and the zoo’s fascinating bonobo family.

The herons which appear are free loaders. There is at least one heronry in the trees growing in the zoo, and probably several in the nearby Tiergarten. The herons descend on the zoo to try to grab the fish which the keepers are distributing as food for the pelicans and other zoo birds.

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Boating lake island heron

A short video clip of one of the West Park herons which was featured yesterday, its long feathers moving in the wind as it stands staring at the boating lake.

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Butterfly on the wall

Video of a red admiral butterfly spreading its wings on a sunny wall trying to warm itself, and having a struggle to hold on in the autumn breeze.

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Another uninvited guest

Actually, almost certainly the same uninvited guest which already featured in a video here.

This female squirrel, which may have only recently had young, scoops up all the food left for the birds again. As she heads off, she leaves behind a small puddle, presumably as a territorial marker.

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A flying visit

Video of a brief visit to a bird table