Birds

Gratuitous Great Tits at Volkspark Hasenheide

October 19, 2007 by Corey 6 Comments

You had to know that I wouldn’t be able to resist doing this post for long. Great Tits and Blue Tits are common wherever there are trees in Berlin, which is pretty much everywhere. Both the trees and the tits are in courtyards, back yards, parks, and on city streets. The pictures here were taken this morning in Berlin’s Volkspark Hasenheide, an urban park a couple of blocks from where I am currently staying.

In addition to the Great Tits this morning I spotted Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Greenfinches, Chaffinches, Eurasian Nuthatches, European Robins, Common Blackbirds and Common Buzzards, to say nothing of Feral Pigeons, House Sparrows and Hooded Crows.

Great Tit

And a word of advice: if you are ever in Volkspark Hasenheide just don’t make eye contact with the young men hanging around in groups of two or three unless you want the opportunity to buy marijuana. Apparently the park is the place to go in Berlin for all of your munchie-inducing needs.

Another Great Tit

Written by Corey
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.