Lake Neusiedler is a nice wildlife spot here in Austria an I enjoy being there. On my several visits to this spot I was able to take several nice pictures of birds that live there. One of these birds that

I really like waders since they are often so concentrated on finding food in the shallow water that they often don't care that I am lying nearby in the sand and wait for them to take some pictures. This

Waders are probably one of my favorite birds since they can come really close when they walk around in the shallow water. And when I ly down at the ground and wait for them to get closer it is easier to

As you might already know I prefer taking picturs of birds at shores near lakes and rivers since there it is much easier to find these birds that are busy with looking for small insects and don't care

Last year in October, I visited a special spot with a lot of shallow water at the wetlands of the Inn River, this spot is only good when there was a bit of a higher water level in the past days so there

Some birds have a very good camouflage color depending on the territory they live. For example these Redshanks that I found at Lake Neusiedler last year they have a very good plumage that protects them

The common Redshanks is a common bird in Europe, Asia and Africa. In Austria it can be seen from spring till autumn and during spring I like to watch their mating ritual. I found this bird already on 3

When taking pictures of birds in the early morning or the evening it is possible to get a nice reflection of them in the water, depending where the light source is (in this case the sun) the reflection

This weekend I had the luck to take some pictures of the mating procedure of two common red shanks. They were wandering around in the shallow water and at first they were a little hard to spot because