It doesn’t “look dangerous”, but I couldn’t fit there either (the trees are too low, only a child can walk on the pavement while walking upright and there in an umbrella hanging upside down at the end). I did what I do most of the time, walked on the road
I might take a picture of the spikes left in the pavements tomorrow. They are supposed to install pillars to hand lights from, but that hasn’t happened, so the four metal threads for each pillar have been installed on the pavement, but they are just jutting out, without any warning or protection.
German name for “Chiffchaff” is “Zilpzalp” (and we pronounce the Z as “ts”)
And here, a Great Tit (and please refrain from childish jokes except if you‘re still in puberty, which would be the only excuse for being an embarrassment to yourself):
And while I’m at it, here’s the European Hornet, also on my terrace:
Best viewed in full screen, and if you appreciate the details, at slowest speed. If you leave the volume turned on high, you’ll also hear the impressive low-pitch humming when she takes off (I can’t remember how often that happened here, I created this a few years ago).
The text from YouTube:
European Hornet (Vespa crabro — European hornet - Wikipedia), Lower Saxony, Germany
These clips are from May 15 to May 24, 2019, relatively early in the year, so I assume these must be queens, esp. given the size (~3–3.5 cm).
About the halved apples: these are for “my” blackbirds who LOVE them during their brooding season.
Camera: iPhone 7 plus
I could be wrong, though, about them being queens.
I understand what you mean, because I had the same idea when the flamingos come each year… first time I saw them I was thinking “wait, didn’t I see those in a documentary in some lake in central Africa? What are they doing here?”
I have no clue, but I see them every year in the same place as the swans. I think I have posted that before.
I looked into this topic again and you can see the place from above in this post (pictures 3-4-5-6):
I was fairly certain that I had posted the flamingos as well and I managed to find them (the second picture):
They are usually very light pink when they come here. There seems to be a lot of food for them, but not the kind of crabs that would make them turn that bright pink we usually see in the documentaries.
Fun fact, the swans seem to be happily able to go and forage or swim in the nearby sea, while the flamingos never seem to do so.
Those are lovely! I like those kinds of clouds so much
(especially if the sun is shining on and off through them and there is a light crisp wind. That’s a perfect day.)
Here they are in the sea as well (picture from the local “news group”). I have a picture of them during the summer when I go swimming, but it is blurry because they are too far in the sea and my phone cannot take a good photo of them. They will “land” like 100+ meters within the sea and then they let the current travel them parallel to the beach, towards the next swamp (there are two of them in the area)
The Moon, up high in the sky, at 17:06 today …
Not the best photo because 15x zoom on iPhone 13 pro max, and that’s only digital zoom (optical it can only do up to 3x), but … I still like it.
My father was an M.D., and we lived in India when I was a child, both my parents worked for German development aid; my father passed on his love for SF to me very early on, so, when I was six, and I was asked what I wanted to be when I was big, I replied, “Moon doctor” expecting humankind to have a colony up there by the 1980s
Flamingos? In Greece?
expecting humankind to have a colony up there by the 1980s 
