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This years winter was a very cold one. Kingfishers, despite their Dutch name (translated to Icebird) don’t like cold winters at all. It’s not that they freeze to death, but when small lakes and ponds are frozen, it’s difficult if not impossible for them to find food, and they starve to death. Observations this spring […]
Finally, I have picked up the camera again. Last Saturday, I spent a hot morning in a tent hide to shoot bathing birds in a small stream. Amazing how many individual birds visit the spot. At one time, there were no less than 7 species in a small bush next to the stream. On Sunday, […]
Since my return from Bulgaria two weeks ago, I have not touched the camera at all. It seems I need time to recover from an overkill of photography. I got up around 4am every day and only let go of the camera around 11pm to recharge both my battery and the cameras. Back home, the […]
I have just returned from a photographic holiday to Bulgaria. The trip was the prize for last years Grasduinen win. I had a great time, got up around 4 in the morning every day and only packed the photographic gear when the sun went down around 9pm. Some of the results from a very interesting […]
The stump of the dead berch tree in which the woodpecker family had (the chicks have long fledged) its nest cavity is forked. The two parts of the fork line up perfectly, one part preventing the early morning sunlight from hitting the other part, but for only five minutes a day. I figured I could […]
This flight shot of a male Great Spotted Woodpecker was taken in a completely other manner than the flight shots of the Common Terns shown earlier in this blog. The woodpecker had its nesting cavity with very loud chicks in a dead berch tree, about 3 meters above ground level. I had spent a mere […]