This Mallard cruised past probably looking for a handout.
Common Mergansers were there as well. This is a European female.
Common Merganser European male
This is a Grey Heron.
It looks and acts a lot like the Blue Heron we have in America but adults are smaller.
Mute Swans by moonlight.
The frog prince looking through the garden gate.
On to the Black Forest
We didn't see much wildlife during our visit but we did notice this rather large snail.
Grove snail (Cepaea nemoralis) though this one doesn't have the dark brown lip that most of them do.
Colmar
This swan was along the bank
Do you see the wildlife in this shot?
Here it is a little closer.
The trees are trimmed like this in cities in France and elsewhere in Europe to limit their natural growth.
It is called pollarding and while it isn't done for the benefit of the storks they do take advantage of the practice.
Next stop Strasbourg
The storks here did a better job of posing for us.
On to Speyer
A Mute Swan and geese on the bank
He is a closer look at a Graylag Goose
Cologne
Here we saw an Egyptian Goose
We saw these Canada geese In Brühl near Cologne
Egyptian goose goslings near one of the ponds in the garden.
In Horne there was this wildlife we had seen earlier.
This is a Grove snail, Brown-lipped snail, or Lemon snail (Cepaea nemoralis) it is easily overlooked.
Eurasian Magpie
I know that these are not exactly wildlife.
There were many fields of Holsteins as we traveled between towns in the Netherlands.
We didn't see a lot of wildlife in Amsterdam (other than in the red light district) so these animals in the zoo will have to do.
The Scimitar oryx is extinct in the wild but zoos have a breeding program that maintains a small population.
Nearby there was a colony of meerkats.
This one looks annoyed, he was giving us the side eye.
Thanks for visiting
