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Gekritzel is a 98 pages long pdf file (15.8MB) containing the scanned pages and digital artworks based on the sketches from my main sketchbook from June 2018 - January 2019.

It mostly contains my OCs, mostly Janet and Juvia, but you can also find Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor from Rogue One, the 13th Doctor from Doctor Who, Molly Grue and Schmendrick from The Last Unicorn and OCs from my friends Razurichan and skitzofreak in it.

Nudity and blood are included, but nothing R rated.

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On friday I had the chance to visit the nationalpark Bavarian Forest.
It was great, despite the cold and fog. In fact it gave the place a mystical atmosphere.

Hello,

now about two weeks have passed since I visited Helgoland. So time for a tripjournal and sharing some photos and drawings.

Why Helgoland?
Helgoland is Germanys only offshore island. Due to it geographical location it is a save stop for migrating birds who got carried away by their normal route. Helgoland is one of the places in Europe whith the highest amount of different birdspecies noted. The bird ringing station is one of the oldest worldwide, with one of the best data and more than a million bird were ringed here.
So in short: Helgoland is one the best spots in Germany/Europe to watch birds. Since I spent the last year with migrating birds and the northsea it was great for me to return and enjoy birds and nature.


My journey started on Sunday at 11pm. I would travel by train for around 8 hours till I arrive in Cuxhaven and take the ferry to Helgoland. The train came from Vienna meaning it was full of refugees crossing the border. No seat left. So I spent the night in the gangway trying to sleep. It was an interesting expierence. The smalltalk with one refugee was very nice, but I only slept around 1 hour, got sick and spending the night with refugess on a train who go through this propably everyday since the started their journey was hard emotionalwise. I wish all of them the best!

Despite me missing the ferry I managed to arrive on Helgoand on Monday as it was planned. I was tired but I need to talk a walk to the "Lummenfelsen" The place where all the offshore birds like gannets and gulliemont breeded. It was fantastic. All the gannets flying near the red rock of Helgoland. (Sadly all other offshorebirds already migrated to the open sea to spent the winter there)

Birds seen:
Gannets, herring gull, back-blacked gull, blackheaded gull, common eider, cormorant, sandwich tern, artic tern, dunlin, turnstone, krestle, sparrowhawk, merlin, ruff, purpel sandpiper, oystercatcher, great ringed plover, golden plover, weathear, pipits, great tit, blue tit, chiffchaff, starling, carrion crow, hooded crow, sanderling, house martin, house sparrow, red robin, blackbird and one yellow-browed warbler (heard around 3)
(Should be it I think)

It was a very nice trip (though no new birds to twitch for me) and I can recommend Helgoland if you are interested in nature. If not I can get boring. Best times to visit Helgoland is during spring/autumn migration or in summer when the offshorebirds are breeding and having the chicks. For more information visit: www.oag-helgoland.de/en…

PS.: Thank you britian for not destroying Helgoland during World War II!

My last journal (not counting the DA birthday one) was around 1 Year ago. 2 days before I left my hometown for my volunteer year. I'm back since Sundaynight and I guess it's the right time to write a little review.

In August I started at the northcoast of Germany. I lived in a small house in the middle of nowhere with no internet except my surfstick which had nearly no signal. I learned a lot about birds in the first month.
My main task was to count every second weekend the birds in a certain area. The waddensea is the most important restarea for birds during their migraton from Scandinavia, Taymyr Peninsula and west Greenland to Banc d' Augin in Africa or even South Africa. Here the birds can rest and feed to get enough energy to fly non-stop South or North. Because the birds are all in one place they get counted every second weekend from the Netherlands to Denmark.
1...2...3...birds!
Counting a small amount of birds is easy but counting a swarm of several thousands isnt!

This is only a small part of an oystercatcherswarm. Counting everyone would take to much time but guessing is to vague. So you count 10 birds and add the area the take to the whole swarm.

We also checked the dirt line every second weekend for dead birds which the sea washed onshore. You check the birds for oil and rings. It's interesting how you almost after every storm find a fulmar or that you find during August and December a lot of young gulls because they don't survive their first weeks without the parents feeding.

In September I transfered onto the Island Langeoog where I spent the rest of my year!


Sunset at Emshavn (Netherlands)

Upcoming storm at Langeoog

Dunes in December


At the end of march we started to go though terrain and note down most of the breeding birds on maps. You need to start before dawn because most of the birds sing the most a dawn. We most of the time worked for 10hrs a day. It was the most exausting time but also the best.

What you get for staying up at 4:30am:






Now onto the birds:

During birdmigration and with the right wind is nearly everything possible:


A snowgoose. Maybe you know them from documentries and than you remember they actually live in America but not Europe! This is right but you can't be sure if it didn't escape a zoo or similair.



A beared vulture. They still are the rarest raptors in europe. Their wings can nearly be 3m long. This one was a young one who propapbly came from the Austrain or Swiss Alps.



A red-necked phalarope. I hoped for this bird for many months. One day in May it thankfully showed it self.


All in all it was an amazing year and if you ever ask yourself if you should do a volunteeryear: DO IT!




Please note that I'm no longer in any connection with the organisations. Everything I wrote here is my own opinion and doesn't represent the organsiations or people.
If you have any questions about my year or birds ask away!


You are not allowed to use these photos for anything!