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Personally, distincting an Eurasian Treecreeper from a Short-toed Treecreeper is a challenge for me. That is why the description of both of them is of the same contents. According to literature an Eurasian Treecreeper most commonly appears in Europe and Asia, while a Short-toed Treecreeper, more thermophilic, inhabits Europe, specifically its Mid and Southern part. Fundamentally, they differ by the length of the rear claw and it would be best if they simply sat beside each other to make the task that much easier. I assume that the Short-toed is more common in Europe, that's the reason for my qualification of this species. Because Treecreeper does not migrate during the winter, time of impoverishment of the species in the forests, we can focus our attention on it. It is interesting to photograph the Treecreeper in a frost of a dozen degrees. Silence, it almost squeals through your ears, no sounds and in such surrounding you can hear almost piercing scratching on a bark. And as the crackling frost strenghtens voices it also strenghtens our notion of what is out there sitting in the woods. Pupils expand, not sure if it's from concentration and looking out or from dread. And here sits a little, 10 grams cleaner, cleaning the bark from insects. In such conditions, with subtle moves it is not even worth masking. After a while in the frost a Treecreeper ought to reward our sanguineous nose. Let's hope the battery and the camera's body will hold...
Last minute news – 11/2015
On quite a lousy morning (rainy, bad light) I set off for the crested tit. I had seen it a few times in this area. The crested tit gallery on my website is not a very big one, so it needs some work. Unfortunately I did not see any crested tit at this time, but luckily some long-tailed tits and short-toed treecreepers appeared. Treecreepers were quite easy to photograph, I could even record their sound. Many photos were taken, and they were so good that the gallery has been remodeled and the short-toed treecreeper goes into the news section.
Last minute news – 03/2016
The situation was almost the same as in November 2015, except that the weather was slightly better, this time it was not raining. So another reconstruction of the gallery took place.
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