Las Vegas,NV European Starlings & Snow Mt.Charleston in the Back 3 February 2016

Las Vegas , Nevada 3 February 2016 European Starlings & Snow on Mt.Chalsten in the back .Enjoy the Photos by Bettina Berg Oma :) Greetings from Opa Fritz & Oma Bettina ;)

Animated Starlings

Google has a cool feature called 'Auto Awesome' in which it'll automatically create .GIF's from photos uploaded into it's Picassa web albums. Sometimes though we don't catch them in a timely manner because they don't always show up immediately after we've uploaded the pics. Okay, anywho here's a couple of neat .GIF's from the past day or so. Enjoy! Opa Fritz and Oma Bettina

Las Vegas ,Nevada 7 January 2016 Bird & European Starlings Pictures

Las Vegas,NV Little Cute Bird (Yellow Rumped Warbler) but this Picture he looks Grumpy Funny Little Bird .The Starling are Beautiful Love The Color Enjoy the Photos tken by Bettina Berg Greeting von uns beiden Opa Fritz & Oma Bettina :) Enjoy :)

Las Vegas,NV 20 December 2015 European Starling

Las Vegas,Nevada 20 December 2015 Everybody Enjoy The Beautiful European Starling in our Backyard Tree Photos by Bettina Berg Enjoy The Starling and have a nice Day by Oma Bettina & Opa Fritz :)

Las Vegas,NV Europen Starling,Crow ,Grackle 18 December 2015

Las Vegas,NV 18 December 2015   European Starling  ,Crow in our Palm Tree and a Grackle Photos by Bettina Berg And a Happy Friday from Oma Bettina and Opa Fritz Enjoy :)

European Starling GIF

Sometimes we just don't notice when Google's 'Auto Awesome' feature kicks in and gives us a.GIF, like this one of the European Starling Bettina just posted a few days ago on the 7th. So here you go - Enjoy! Opa Fritz and Oma Bettina

European Starling

While Bettina's busying herself with our granddaughter I'm gonna post a photo she took today of a European Starling, known in the UK simply as a Starling  We see it ruffling its spotted winter feathers in our tree. 

Several weeks ago I signed Bettina and myself up for Operation FeederWatch, the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology's  "...winter-long survey of birds that visit feeders at backyards, nature centers, community areas, and other locales in North America. FeederWatchers periodically count the birds they see at their feeders from November through early April and send their counts to Project FeederWatch. FeederWatch data help scientists track broadscale movements of winter bird populations and long-term trends in bird distribution and abundance."

To think that just last year we had a hard time telling the difference between a  turkey and a pigeon! :-) When Bettina got interested in photography and simply started taking pictures of the birds visiting our backyard we had no idea it would lead to an on-going interest in them and it really has been a revelation. We're actually taking notice of all the birds that end up here in Da Hood and we're seeing some surprising birds flying over North Las Vegas: Great-tailed Grackles, Starlings, Kestrels, Hawks, Turkey Vultures, Northern Flickers, Mockingbirds, Dark-eyed Juncos, Sparrows, Finches, migrating Geese and more - it's really been fascinating. We haven't posted a lot of what we've managed to capture because there's way too many photos and just not enough time, but we hope you've enjoyed what we have posted.

The FeederWatch requirements are simple but they do have very distinct requirements for posting your watch figures and many of the birds we see fall outside the watch parameters BUT member's can still post photos on the University website regardless of when the photo was taken. Enjoy! Opa Fritz and Oma Bettina

Las Vegas Bird's,Cloud's,Mt,Charleston Snow,Sheep Mt.Pictures

Hello Everybody!Was Very Busy taken Bird Pictures and it is hard to Stop taken Pictures for me because I Love what they do all.Some sit in the Tree and wait for there turn and they are so Quick and sometimes I just keep taken Picture's one after another.But if I want a Single I Like them in the Tree so I have to be Patient.So now to the Pictures Hope you Like and Have a Wonderful Day From The Berg's PS Sickel Moon & Cloud's & Mountain Pictures,Snow Mt Charleston,Sheep MT. Enjoy The Berg's