My pal and namesake Jussi has incredible will and tendency to stay in the hide for hours and hours. Im not like that, so I suck as a wildlife photographer. Trust me you don’t want me in the hide with you when you have to stay still and quiet. Jussi talked about some cranes and Im pretty sure it was all due to my “LOOK THERE THEY ARE!” what scared them. That does not mean that I do not enjoy the nature but shooting it is not for me. You don’t want me to shoot flower macros or try to capture a rare butterfly. I can shoot seagols – with a riffle.
And its all cool beacause I can do this (pic above). And I like shooting people not with a riffle but with a camera.
But every now and then I get misplaced, confused. Near my workplace there is a punch of seagols and this. Some sort of hawk? But what kind? Don’t know but it flew very nicely.
That’s an osprey. It is a predatory bird that feeds exclusively on fish. It IS related to hawks.
I must say that I am very happy to see that you have picked up something from our visits to my hide in the past. I do a lot of my natureshots by way of “walk around, spot it, capture it”. Don’t worry, I’ll make you take the crane pics sometime in the future… When the fall migration is up again, we’ll head out with better luck and a better hide where slight movement will not have an effect.
Oh, by the way, if you want to shoot a seagull a rifle is not very good unless the seagull is perched and keeping still. You should use a shotgun for flying targets ;)