Today for the Free theme of the Photo Contest by @nelinoeva I want to show you some pictures of the European Stonechat that I found in north eastern Austria at the border to Czech Republic and Slovakia.

During my photography trip this last weekend I was able to take several nice pictures of birds again and also the european stonechat was one of the birds that I found there. These birds like living in

European stonechats breed in heathland, coastal dunes and rough grassland. In the grasslands of eastern Austria I was able to take several pictures of this beautiful bird. Especially in Lower Austria and

Lake Neusiedler is still one of the best bird photography spots in Austria, eventhough the water levels in the last years were very bad, except from this year. This year in Spring we had a very decent

On my trip to eastern Austria and Lake Neusiedler I was able to take some pictures of the european stonechat in a meaddow. There are only a few meaddows left where they can live and breed and they are

The European Stonecaht is one of the more seldom birds in middle Europe, but there is a pretty big population in eastern Europe so it is not threatened. During spring time and bird migration it can be

Last weekend I visited Lake Neusiedler together with Stefan for some bird photography and I am happy that I was again very successful in taking several nice pictures of birds. It is always such a nice

Male & Female Stonechat