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The trip to Hungary concentrated around hide visits, as mentioned in my first Hungary post. The hides are all in ‘ideal’ light positions, but the light conditions are not always predictable. The forest water station was located in a stream of light, occasionally blocked by the waiving trees.
So, where I normally [...]
Early May I joined a photographic tour in Hungary (organised by Robert O’Toole, http://www.robertotoole.com/). The main attraction of this tour was the usage of hides. Bence Máté (http://www.hidephotography.com/), the owner of the farm we went to, has specialised in building hides at strategic positions, to get up close and personal with birds you normally [...]
Last week we spent a week on the dutch island of Texel, the largest of the group situated in the north of Holland. The wheather was fantastic with clear blue skies and a firm breeze from the north. I visited a number of breeding colonies, mainly habituated by black-headed gulls and northern terns. European [...]