Sandwich Terns are true acrobats of the sky. Tirelessly flying around, they scan the seas below. When they think there’s something worthwhile below the surface, they quickly turn. twist and dive into the waters. Unpredictable […]
Bunting on the Rocks
Over the years, I have had plenty of opportunities to photograph Snow Buntings (click here for an overview). Usually, I would have them on the ground, often on beaches and grassy surfaces. Last week however, […]
A Flying Circus
The early seventies gave us ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’. Who doesn’t know the ‘Dead Parrot Sketch‘? Anyway. Last week gave me a flying circus as well. A Circus cyaneus to be more precise, also known […]
On Snipers and Snipes
Snipes are, when on the ground, rather difficult to spot. First of all, they tend to be extremely well camouflaged and hence blend in perfectly with their environments (as you can see in the first […]
Calidris Kitsch
To be honest, the last two months were rather depressing. COVID still dominated the news, people didn’t give a fuck about the “Corona-rules” and then complained about the more serious measures that had to be […]
Ode to the Ordinary
Everyday birds usually end up as ‘collateral species’. A good example is (in my case) the Grey Heron. A bird I see everyday, and usually can even see looking out the window of our house. […]
28 YEARS LATER
On October 4th, 1992 I couldn’t take my eyes of the television screen. It was broadcasting live footage from a burning high-rise apartment building in Amsterdam, into which – earlier that evening – a Boeing […]
Black Hole Owl
Looking at these images may give the impression that this Tawny Owl is as easy to photograph as the one I recently wrote about. Well, that couldn’t be less far from the truth, unfortunately. First […]
Brown Eyed Girl
“Standing in the sunlight laughing Hide behind a rainbow’s wall Slipping and a-sliding All along the waterfall With you, my brown-eyed girl You, my brown-eyed girl” Van Morrison 1967 Some weeks ago, I went with […]
Game of Thornes
A while ago we were taking a Sunday stroll in the neighbouring forest, when we saw something moving underneath the autumn leaves. A Hedgehog ! We watched it for a while and moved on. After […]
