Wagtail

Azure-winged magpie
(Cyanopica cyana)

Barn-swallow
(Hirundo rustica)

Black bird
(Turdus merula)

Blackcap
(Sylvia atricapilla)

Black redstart
(Phoenicurus ochruros)

Black wheatear
(Oenanthe leucura)

Bluethroat
(Luscinia svecica)

Blue rock trush
(Monticola solitarius)

Blue tit
(Parus caeruleus)

Brambling
(Fringilla montifringilla)

Cetti´s warbler
(Cettia cetti)

Chaffinch
(Fringilla coelebs)

Chiffchaff
(Phylloscopus collybita)

Corn bunting
(Miliaria calandra)

Crag martin
(Ptyonoprogne rupestris)

Crested lark
(Galerida cristata)

Dartford warbler
(Sylvia undata)

Fan-tailed warbler
(Cisticola juncidis)

Fieldfare
(Turdus pilaris)

Garden warbler
(Sylvia borin)

Goldfinch
(Carduelis carduelis)

Great reed warbler
(Acrocephalus arundinaceus)

Great tit
(Parus major)

Greenfinch
(Carduelis chloris)

Grey wagtail
(Motacilla cinerea)

House sparrow
(Passer domesticus)

Jackdaw
(Corvus moedula)

Jay
(Garrulus glandarius)

Meadow pipit
(Anthus pratensis)

Melodious warbler
(Hippolais polyglotta)

Nuthatch
(Sitta europea)

Parus montanus
(Parus montanus)

Pied flycatcher
(Ficedula
hypoleuca)

Red-rumped swallow
(Hirundo
daurica)

Reed bunting
(Emberiza
schoeniclus)

Reed warbler
(Acrocephalus
scirpaceus)

Robin
(Erithacus
rubecula)

Rock bunting
(Emberiza cia)

Rock sparrow
(Petronia
petronia)

Sardinian warbler
(Sylvia melanocephala)

Serin
(Serinus serinus)

Siskin
(Carduelis spinus)

Skylark
(Alauda arvensis)

Southern grey shrike
(Lanius excubitor meridionalis)

Spanish sparrow
(Passer hispaniolensis)

Spotless starling
(Sturnus unicolor)

Spotted flycatcher
(Muscicapa striata)

Starling, common
(Sturnus vulgaris)

Stonechat
(Saxicola torquata)

Thekla lark
(Galerida thekalae)

Wagtail
(Motacilla alba)

Water pipit
(Anthus spinoletta)

Wheatear
(Oenanthe oenanthe)

Whinchat
(Saxicola rubetra)

Wite throar
(Sylvia communis)

Willow warbler
(Phylloscopus trochilus)

Woodchat shrike
(Lanius senator)

Wren
(Troglodytes troglodytes)

Yellow Wagtail
(Motacilla flava)

Wagtail (Motacilla alba)

A young wagtail is begging for food:

During summertime …

… I hardly can catch sight of the wagtail family…

… because the birds are rather staying at the river.

These photos are all made during the winter months, when they populate my biotope and ….

… even fly to the feeding places and enjoy taking oat flakes:

A male wagtail …

… extensively caring about his plumage:

"Done!":

Such a nice guy!

July 2011 - homey biotope:

July 2011 - homey biotope:

July 2011 - homey biotope:

Birgit Kremer

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