We did not do much because of lack of time, actually in the first afternoon was quite cold and Misha's hairs so long that balls of ice were constantly forming under her feet making it impossible for her to walk, therefore we had to cut the walk short and to rive to a seconf area were walking was shorter.
Even in this short chaotic time we managed to see quite nice birds, lot of tits spcifically Coal, Marsh, Great and Crested tit. The last by far the most shy even at the feeding stations in the pine woodland, the shyest but also the most beautiful one.
Together with the tits there was another of my favourites... the Common Nuthatch, little orange thing running up and down the coarse bark of the pines looking for food and caching food in the cracks of the wood.
This frenzy of little birds was always disturbed by the arrival of the much bigger Nutcrackers... a much overlooked bird with a realy elegant brown colour.
The real surprise was a close-quarter view of a Great spotted woodpecker, a big bird with a striking red, white and black pattern.
The little pond close to the Inn river gave us mallards and the smaller Common teal , while the river was home to the incredible Common Dipper, a small bird that feeds in larvae and little insects under the water surface, plunging and swimming in water just above freezing temperature.. such a tough litle one... I LOVE IT
The day after started as a real Blast, while having breakfast Daniele walked close to the balcony and looking in the sky asked me which bird was that one flying.. I went over to see the most spectacula bird of prey of the alps... the Lammergeier... Same specie I was few days ago on mount Meru.
The bird flew just over the house and in the early morning light we had an amaaaaaziiing view.... It was holding something in the beak, I don't know if it was food or what.
That's definitely asuper lucky start....
Walking in Val Roseg was good as usual, we saw again most of the birds seen the day before but we had another good new one.
Laura spotted a raptor in the sky, this time was a Golden eagle. My best bird as a kid... the one I always was keen to see while hiking with my parents... As soon as it disappeard across the mountains a second one appeared and followed the first across the valley...
Eventually we drove back home but stopping in Val Bregaglia for a bit of food was good to see the last bird of the week end.. the Blue tit...
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