I’m starting to get my new home in order, so I can think about other things. Like photography, of course!

Since spring has arrived early this year, we drove around a little bit to find some birds that you normally can find in the fields while they wait for their nesting grounds to melt. But maybe the spring has arrived earlier than the birds had counted on, so they haven’t made their way up here yet. Even the places which normally are very popular among the migrants were now just gaping empty and we found only one spot with any significant amount of life, and it was a little bit too far for my lens. I’ve kept the picture even though I had to crop it to the old D30 size, because I thought it was a bit funny… my first thought was that it was a Photoshop Disaster (straight out camera), but a closer look revealed that the leftmost swan has poked its beak through the wing of the swan in front. There was a chase going on and anything is possible in the heat of the action!

[The picture the text refers to has been deleted. Instead, below another bird.]