The weather was just perfect for bird photography. It was foggy, but it was the light autumn fog that allowed the sunlight to break through a little bit because somewhere above the fog there were blue skies. Which means, I can use a lower ISO for the birds while the background will be distraction free.…

Let’s see. Last Sunday was supposed to be sunny but it wasn’t. Then all week it has been sunny and calm, just simply gorgeous weather that I wasted in the office. And now it’s Saturday and it’s overcast and windy. I’m sure that the weather doesn’t read the calendar but this is just cruel. But…

It was a rainy and overcast day on Saturday, it didn’t clear up until right at sunset. Which gave me some nice clouds to shoot, it must be the first sunset I’ve caught since… since… apparently quite a long time. Sunday morning on the other hand was as bright as it gets in September. Maybe…

I set up my bird feeder site really early this year. It turned out to be a popular move because  I’ve needed to refill the feeders every evening. All week I was wondering why the food is disappearing so fast because I knew from experience that the tits don’t eat that much… then today I…

It wasn’t quite as cold as yesterday and towards the afternoon the temperatures had risen enough to make it quite comfortable, actually. But in the morning it was a different story though, and I only managed about half an hour photographing the birds before my fingers were frozen. I was dressed in double and triple…

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…

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.…

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…

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…