Kategori: fågel
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Latest from the Crane Watch: A swimming crane! I had no idea they can do it, but now I’ve seen it myself so I gotta believe it. Unfortunately the picture is unforgivably soft, the crane was fast approaching the shore so I had no time to set up anything and shot while the car engine…
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I drove to the crane location again and found one bird in the nest, so all is fine and well! I have to visit the place daily, because the chicks can hatch any day now. There was a couple of common greenshanks standing on some mounds which may or may not be nests, and in…
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Exactly a year ago (plus a day) I moved to Ljusnedal. It was a rainy day and quite cool, and on the mountain it had snowed the previous night, so it was almost all white. What a difference! Today it was t-shirt weather, even when the sun insisted being behind a cloud half the day.…
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As you saw from my previous post, yesterday morning was quite bleak with low clouds. The sun came out in the afternoon though, and it makes all the difference, so I drove out to check the cranes and red-throated divers. I found where the cranes have their nest. I also found that they have a guest, I…
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On sunny evenings, I go to the golf course with the big lens to see if I can catch any birds. There are plenty of them, and so far I have a 100% success rate – at scaring them off. Hmm… I’m not aiming to get any beautiful keepers, I’m just taking the opportunity to…
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Did a quick trip to see if the cranes and red-throated divers are back – and they are! The tarn where the cranes are is still covered with ice, but the red-throated divers’ tarn has melted fully. It’s a popular place, I saw common golden-eyes, mallards and best of all, tufted ducks, before I spotted…
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Cycled the Lossen road for the first time this year, with the following observations: The cranes are not at home yet. The little tarn by their (last year’s) nesting site is still covered with ice The Lossen reservoir is almost empty The spring water is as good as it ever was (I filled my bottle…
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When the cranes are not on the golf course, they are on the field behind my house. I counted about 40 from my living room window, but I can’t shoot them from this side of the field, the angle is all kinds of wrong. So I approached them from the other side and got surprisingly…
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I think I just solved the telephoto problem I’ve had with my Sony system. Sony’s cameras are far ahead of their lens selection and there’s two things that I’ve missed, a large aperture extreme wideangle for night photo, and a long telephoto. When Zeiss announced the Batis 2.8/18 a couple of weeks ago, it filled the wideangle…
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I thought yesterday was great. Well, today was better! This post-season season is new to me and honestly, it’s well worth the long and cold winter! Which, by the way, didn’t feel very long, and wasn’t very cold either. Apart from those few weeks in January when my car broke. But let’s not dwell on that… I…