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Since the end of March, I have been researching and monitoring several potential habituated fox dens around my area. Some two weeks ago, I found the tell-tale signs of fox cubs at two of these dens: lots of feathers, rabbit fur and bones, fresh digging marks and fox excrement. I spent hours and hours at the […]
You see right through me, Cause you’re running away, You keep turning your back on me,I tried so hard,But you’re running away,Please dont turn your back on me. Three Days Grace – Running Away Very appropriate lyrics from a song that is actually about something else, but nevermind. You may want to check out their […]
Here’s one from last week. A night with a clear sky meant temperatures hovered around zero degrees celcius. The weather forecast for the following day predicted a sunny day, which means early morning, there will be fog, lots of fog. Especially above bodies of water. So naturally, I went to the local fishing ponds. Already […]
Inspite of being tired from a few very short nights of sleep, I managed to get out early on sunday. Last week, I spent a morning in a tenthide for the Stonechat couple. The bushes that they have built their nest in border a sandy farmroad. The adjacent farmland features patches of long grass and wildflowers. An ideal […]
Somehow, most of the bird species I photograph have an English name that starts with ‘common’. That seems to imply that the species can be found in abundance, does not look or sound spectacular and is not in need of preservation. Just to give a few examples: Common Kingfisher, Common Stonechat, Common Redstart, Common Buzzard, Common Blackbird, […]
Last year I paid my very first visit to the Hallerbos in Belgium. It was an overwhelming experience. So much beauty and so many photographic opportunities, but it is very hard to extract something nice out of the chaos that a deciduous forest usually presents. Back then, we were lucky to have a dense layer of […]