Etikett: fågel
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Those ducks I mentioned yesterday, yes they were still there. I had initially id’ed them as mandarin ducks, but it seemed like such an exotic alternative that I was sure I was mistaken. But there’s no mistaking now, we have freakin’ mandarin ducks in Loos! I don’t know how rare they are, but rare enough…
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I’ve gone over to the dark side. I drove a snowmobile yesterday. Anyway, it was a whole lot easier than I thought. I guess the motorbike practice helped, so as soon as I got used to the way the snowmobile behaved, I had no problems at all. By the time we took a narrow trail…
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Can’t complain about the weather, it’s certainly looking like winter now. I only wish it would be like this all winter through… Since none of the trails are open yet, I decided to take the car and search for photo ops. I soon came across a flock of black grouse that didn’t take flight when…
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Since I had a lot of bird activity at the feeder again, I decided to zoom with my feet and set up shop just over 3 metres from the feeder. This meant that I was out in the open and the great tits seemed to mind it, but the smaller birds and nuthatches kept happily…
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I like maps. They’re good for a lot of things, including a source of inspiration when I’m planning my weekend photo excursions. Even when you know (or think you know) the area you live in, a close inspection of a map can reveal something you haven’t seen before. Say for example, a murder scene. I’m…
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I couldn’t let go of a good thing, so I drove back to Össjön to take a closer look at the old boats. The wind had picked up from yesterday and there certainly wasn’t any lack of light, so I had a perfect opportunity to try the new ND filter. Stacked with a polariser, I…
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Every spring, hundreds of cranes gather up in the open fields of Korskrogen, waiting for the winter to release its grip on their nesting grounds. The fields are not really photogenic, so I haven’t even tried to photograph them before. This year I thought I would try, just to have something to remember them by.…
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We got some real snow this week – not nearly as much as SMHI was forecasting, but enough to cover the landscape in a white coat and enough for the ski tracks. I’ll wait until my achy breaky back stops twinging before I get on the skis though, today I settled for a walk through…
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There were two individuals, but it was impossible to get them in the same frame. So the above picture is a composite, two OOF frames with motion blur with the stump as an anchor to tie them together. Either that, or delete…
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I know I’ve said this before, but I just love the bird feeder setup I have in front of the living room window. I sat down with the camera when the first birds arrived in the morning, and two and a half hours later I had 163 images. That has never, ever happened before! So,…