Greetings from Wien!

We made is safely to Austria and took a train into town during our layover. After lunch, when our group broke up to visit various museums, I slipped away to visit Wiener Stadtpark, were I found all kinds of pretty birds.

Here’s an elusive Eurasian blue tit, who just wouldn’t let me get a clear shot.

Here’s a great tit, who wasn’t much more obliging.

There’s a small river, the Wienfluss, that flows right beside the park through town, and here’s a gray wagtail, who was foraging and wagging its tail along the water’s edge.

There were several Eurasian blackbirds lurking in the bushes, but this one was quite bold and stuck all sorts of interesting poses between picking berries.

There’s a little pond in the park, similar in size and even shape to the pond in Estabrook Park, and here’s a gray heron perched atop an ornamental tree beside the pond to avoid the fray of park goers feeding mallards and gulls on the water below.

Here’s one of the gulls, a diminutive black-headed gull, in its non-breeding plumage and holding its own in that fray.

Finally, here’s a great cormorant also perched above the pond.

If everything goes right, my next post should be from Montenegro, so wish me luck!