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Sunlight! What an amazing thing, clear skies in the morning, when has that happened? My bird restaurant is ideally located for the morning light (the reverse applies in the afternoon) so out I go, hoping that I could make use of the beautiful warm light. Since this is forest, the light moves around a lot…
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Everybody’s favourite complaint these days is that the days are so short – the sun sets already at half past two so there really isn’t a lot of daylight. For such a short trip on the sky, the sun never gets very high either which means that the light isn’t exactly blinding even at noon.…
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It’s been looking like winter this week and I’ve been looking forward to the weekend to enjoy it. So I didn’t waste any time in the morning, left as soon as there was enough light. I was also a little bit worried that the temperatures would creep above freezing so I definitely had to do…
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SMHI says that this November is one of the warmest ever, warmest since 2000 anyway. I remember November 2000 quite well because I moved to Sweden right at the end of October; it was snowing when I got off the train and I trudged to the hotel through wet snow and feeling quite happy about…
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This belongs to the category not-so-nice. If you’re squeamish, don’t open the picture! When I was photographing the birds, I noticed this one great tit which had a head injury. Looks almost like someone did open brain surgery on it, flesh wounds and a swollen forehead. It was pecking away at the peanuts, seemingly not bothered…
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Everybody who knows me knows that I’m a sucker for a good snowfall. Needless to say that I was out with the camera today in what was my first opportunity this winter to photograph in the falling snow. Had to enjoy it while it lasts because the temperatures are already creeping up to zero and…
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I did warn you about posting a lot of bird pictures (and I didn’t promise that they’d be good, either). But today I’m trying to present some alternative poses so it’s not just the traditional bird on a stick all the time. I was actually very close to trashing the great tit picture because there’s…
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I’ve no idea what’s going on. My cold is not getting any better, but thankfully it’s not getting any worse either. It’s one of those mild things I typically get, but now it’s been going for almost a week and that’s very un-typical. But I’ve had enough of sitting inside and abandoned my Star Trek…
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My cold is still keeping me at home, I’m not too sick not to work but I’m not well enough to travel to work and sit around other people all day either. So I’m working from home; nice to have that option. This morning when I woke up, the landscape had transformed – it looks…
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I learned something else about photographing from a blind: dress warmly. I froze my butt off on Saturday and apparently wasn’t warm enough on Sunday either because I now have a cold. Let’s hope it’s not the swine variety and that I will get off as easy as I normally do. The worst part about…