Mammals

  Here’s another image of the single fox pup I found two weeks ago. At this young age, they are cute little angels, still a far cry from the cunning predators they will become at an older age. I thought a highkey black and white rendition would stress this angel analogy even better. Like an […]

  At last. This weekend saw me staring at a sandy hole for another 10 hours. Two very early mornings,  I was in position at 5.15 am already, in anxious anticipation of events that would unfold in front of me. Or not. On Friday, at 6.15 I saw movement in the not too tall grass. […]

  Another week has passed and still no decent visual observation of a fox (except for one crossing the road in front of the car long before dawn). I spent two very early and very long mornings at a den that looks promising, but the only thing I got during 11 hours of observation was […]

  Last Friday I spent the morning in a tenthide overlooking a patch of arable land. I was invited by a friend to visit the hide he had erected on his property to photograph Ring Ouzel (Turdus torquatus; Beflijster) and Common Partridge (Perix perdix; Patrijs). The tent was put up along a beautiful hidden hedge […]

For the first time in ages, I had a full day at my disposal for photography. But as is so often the case, things (timing, weather) don’t work out as expected or hoped for on those days. The plan was to photograph sunrise at a fen, proceed with Moorfrogs, go home for some rest and return […]

Still lovely winter weather, but not as much time this weekend for photography and the little time I had was dedicated to wrong choices. I spent the morning at the local fishing ponds. Now of course they were frozen, so I did not expect a lot of waterfowl, but I had hoped for foxes or […]