Birds

My 100th post on this blog since I started in August, 2008. No foxes this week, as the family seem to have moved to a larger residence. I spent 5 hours waiting at the den, but to no avail. A closer inspection of the den showed no fresh prints in the wet sand. Some 50 […]

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, […]

This weekend featured two wonderful mornings with beautiful sunrise and dense groundfog. Despite this ideal weather for landscape photography, I had other plans and with pain in my photographic heart, had to ignore the foggy world around me. On Friday, I visited a small but worthwile nature reserve close to home. I had not been there […]

Last week, I wrote about the x-factor of the Bluethroat. Well, last Friday I went back to nature’s studio to listen to another live concert. It was a disappointing show and all three male contestants had to go to the sing-off because of a very meager performance. In the end, the jury (me) decided to send […]