Kategori: fågel
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I’ve noticed that my mood and photographic opportunities are directly related. When a long time passes without any good photo sessions, I start to get depressed. Then a day comes that I get no less than two reasons to exercise the camera and suddenly I’m as happy as ever! It was overcast yesterday but late…
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It’s the last day of the Easter break, thank god! I can’t take this any more. Grey skies, wind, warm temperatures, this is the worst Easter since… ehrm… well, it hasn’t been a good Easter. We’re supposed to have sunshine! So today I gave up. I had planned to go skiing but I just simply…
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Took my bike and Mega-Tamron to the red-throated diver lake yesterday evening. The pair of divers was there, but I couldn’t find the chick. At first I thought it’s hiding at the southern end of the lake like it was the last time I saw it, because the adults birds started swimming that way almost…
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Sunny and calm mornings are not to be taken for granted, so I drove to the red-throated diver location in the morning. Would be nice to get some front lit birds, which will really bring out the red throat of theirs. Walking through the forest I could see one bird take off but this was…
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Last week I visited a small lake in search of a geocache. I found the cache and in the process I scared two small chicks that had been hiding on the water’s edge close to the cache. Further out on the lake I saw an adult bird, but of course I had neither a camera…
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What a treat! Got see a pair of cranes with a pair of hatchlings! I found the cranes yesterday when I was cycling, one of the cranes was incubating. I figured that it must be very close to hatching time by now so it was necessary to go back there today, with the big lens, and…
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We got another boat ride! It was a last minute arrangement since we had a day to spare, and so we got to go to a fishing village (Oqaatsut, or Rodebay) some way north from Ilulissat. I did take some iceberg pictures on the way, but it wasn’t so nice to be on the deck…
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The morning was sunny, and I didn’t feel that I needed pictures of icebergs in that light so I did a walk around town. Nice walk, but I really don’t get any photography done in urban environments. In the afternoon we walked to the same spot we already visited on Saturday, but this time we…
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Switched to another new lens, Sigma 70-200/2.8 OS. I had a particular subject in mind today, but when I got close to it, I saw some geese. Since I now had 200mm (x1.6) at my disposal, I took out the camera to see if I could make anything out of the geese but then I noticed these mallards…
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Sat by the feeder again, no sign of the long-tailed tits but I was glad to see a willow tit at long last! And I finally got some pictures of the crested tit as well. * * * The pattern is amazing, it took me a moment to figure out why the face looked so…