LBV mourns the loss of Hans Werner, the bird man
Created: 10/04/2022 11:02 am
By: Andrea Graepel
The bird voice impersonator: Hans Werner died on Sunday at the age of 87.
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Hans Werner died on Sunday at the age of 87.
Werner is known to generations of nature lovers for his ornithological nature hikes on the eastern shore of Lake Starnberg and beyond the district borders, also because the Höhenrainer was able to imitate bird calls so well.
But not only the Starnberg district group in the State Association for Bird Protection mourns the loss of their long-standing member, but also the Wolfratshausen Photo Club, whose oldest member was Hans Werner.
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- The son of a skilled chemical worker and a housewife was born in Munich in 1935.
He has lived in Höhenrain since he was four years old, where he became an electrician after school, married and was the proud father of two daughters, and he was at least as proud of his two grandchildren.
He started taking photos at the age of 18 and made the switch to digital photography with enthusiasm.
He had been a member of the Wolfratshausen Photo Club since 1966.
From the Starnberg district group in the LBV, he was one of the founding fathers and bearer of the Golden Badge of Honor of the LBV in the 1970s.
Last year, together with the former district chairman Horst Guckelsberger, he installed 33 nesting boxes in the patient garden of the Starnberg Clinic.
Guckelsberger (84) had known Werner for 32 years,
appreciated his patience when observing birds and nature and likes to think back to when Werner once again had “a very special experience of nature”.
"Always," says Guckelsberger.
Another quote from Werner will remain in the memory of the photo club: "No one is as clever as all of us." The humor, patience, his ability to "talk" to the birds - they will be missed by the LBV.
When Werner talked about talking to three whinchats in the Murnauer Moos, for example.
Guckelsberger has to laugh and adds that unlike modern voice imitations via smartphones, Werner always knew to stop in time.
The LBV will miss him.
Another quote from Werner will remain in the memory of the photo club: "No one is as clever as all of us." The humor, patience, his ability to "talk" to the birds - they will be missed by the LBV.
When Werner talked about talking to three whinchats in the Murnauer Moos, for example.
Guckelsberger has to laugh and adds that unlike modern voice imitations via smartphones, Werner always knew to stop in time.
The LBV will miss him.
Another quote from Werner will remain in the memory of the photo club: "No one is as clever as all of us." The humor, patience, his ability to "talk" to the birds - they will be missed by the LBV.
When Werner talked about talking to three whinchats in the Murnauer Moos, for example.
Guckelsberger has to laugh and adds that unlike modern voice imitations via smartphones, Werner always knew to stop in time.
The LBV will miss him.
Guckelsberger has to laugh and adds that unlike modern voice imitations via smartphones, Werner always knew to stop in time.
The LBV will miss him.
Guckelsberger has to laugh and adds that unlike modern voice imitations via smartphones, Werner always knew to stop in time.
The LBV will miss him.